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Date:      Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:15:44 +0100
From:      Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] Moving WWW from pkg-descr to Makefile
Message-ID:  <20121005151544.GA9938@charon.picobyte.net>
In-Reply-To: <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
References:  <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>

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On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> I want to propose and make the actual move of the WWW information from the
> pkg-descr to the Makefile itself via a WWW variable.
> 
> doing this will have multiple benefits:
>  * consistency all metadata bug this one are in Makefile
>  * speedup make describe avoiding using grep to get the informations (make
>    describe itself does not need speed but make index heavily use it and this
>    will definitly benefit from speed up)
>  * Third party tool will be able to probe the information more easily.
> 
> Do anyone have any concern about this?

A good idea in principle, but I think we need to take care to ensure
that the information is easily discoverable by end users. There's a risk
that burying the URLs in Makefiles might make them less accessible.

-- 
Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin
of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson



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