Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 00:10:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/20618: New port: moviedb, the internet movie database Message-ID: <200008160710.AAA83913@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/20618; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: Kim Scarborough <sluggo@unknown.nu> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/20618: New port: moviedb, the internet movie database Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2000 21:56:00 -0400 On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:14:48AM -0500, Kim Scarborough wrote: > Oh, whoops... wasn't thinking about that. I'll send a new one from the > relative path, like you say. Sure, send it as a new PR and I'll obsolete this one. > They have to be... those files change every few days, as new information > is added. That's fine then. > I thought about doing that, and I'm not sure why I decided against it. I > will put it there. How about mentioning the approximate total size of all the distfiles, too? > Well, I'm kinda hoping that they'll figure out the stupidity of having > variables in the Makefile that break the compile if redefined... if that > someday occurs to them, most of those patches will become unnecessary. Heh.. fat chance. Trust me, regex is a much better idea (scalability is the key to making ports easy to maintain, and that's coming from someone who has made over 100 and has touched over 1,000 ports). > Look for the new shar soon. BTW, has anyone there had a chance to look at > my quranref port? Will do. -- Will Andrews <andrewsw@purdue.edu> <will@FreeBSD.org> GCS/E/S @d- s+:+ a--- C++ UB++++$ P+ L- E--- W+ N-- !o ?K w--- O- M+ V- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X+ R+ tv+ b++ DI+++ D+ G++ e>++++ h! r- y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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