From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 15 00:54:49 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5BBA8763 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qe0-x22e.google.com (mail-qe0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c02::22e]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1AA5B2B84 for ; Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:54:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qe0-f46.google.com with SMTP id s14so1841775qeb.19 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:54:47 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=+V3t88gOTJ7X1hFWP4r9Rsix1plxTqsi2sPGY29lX6w=; b=iXpFyENddeRFrhSfyLkR/oGmYhoTGpZk3mYiQjuxtPNU11eC1ObFuWb5oDjeTei8nP uIYDEpmj++r5DcDJ2HFv0CRPFyRUnyzLOADxVrmaixw2GK1S+zKKxpwClc7pmE1RhZjt 9uGiqn1TLvY8eT1xcyVFIuxXCLvjkpvGanVJ8= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=+V3t88gOTJ7X1hFWP4r9Rsix1plxTqsi2sPGY29lX6w=; b=MhkIg0MnM9uJBs8nppif06IMqPoVSAz+hHYCBx/HLwUAjBeSb0vG/HfAjUm6wBIk9Y rRH5jNY6KZ8zdBR2RWPSUq+gCMYKoxnnkmVgQDNyMNuSQcvdcfpBxKmGSuloWpb5j9Ql LC9ZyZ5Q7gRRfaZhMcu9mS3jMkSjsztm0eD7x0/ew/+1CrCyBnYqBdAq0CJHZHxqTgke wawF7rrDZbwwMpc9e/JrQuARzflM988hXsNLws10qYJ7zOhOQLS5NQmaCbVGwXSOwFqv Hajs6droUqZlda6FBLFkNyOmq6JgwTFESM9hprYagmPHqc6G05qbdm7g9YKP/MXbmRz3 kHxg== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQktR1FuUyFvkbmuFDZu7SsrnJCa6ediFuBfIb1HDUoefEogIEu7Ho+rQtOoTOSIp89nEPn2 X-Received: by 10.224.131.67 with SMTP id w3mr6825013qas.62.1384476887808; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:54:47 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.96.63.101 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Nov 2013 16:54:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <9D6E2358-4750-41D5-9B8C-F638C8B1E351@xs4all.nl> References: <5283E4A0.6090107@pcbsd.org> <20131114073008.GG90670@droso.dk> <9D6E2358-4750-41D5-9B8C-F638C8B1E351@xs4all.nl> From: Eitan Adler Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:54:17 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports To: Jaap Akkerhuis Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Melvyn Sopacua , FreeBSD Ports , Kris Moore X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 00:54:49 -0000 On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Jaap Akkerhuis wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2013, at 8:30, Erwin Lansing wrote: > >> That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm just a bit worried about >> spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split >> content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the >> current WWW. I know we're not consistent already with things like >> COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to >> where these end up. > > Apart from spreading this information into to many places (pkg_desc seams > a proper place to have such information), why have the Makefile double up > as a database? pkg_descr is free form. Makefiles are parsable (make -V). -- Eitan Adler