From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Nov 12 3:20:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608F937B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:20:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9DA543E6E for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 03:20:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gACBKHXL165560; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:20:17 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021111232402.GA2153@over-yonder.net> References: <20021111232402.GA2153@over-yonder.net> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 06:20:16 -0500 To: "Daniel M. Kurry" From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Thinking about PORTCOMMENTS Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 5:24 PM -0600 11/11/02, Daniel M. Kurry wrote: >On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 06:08:34PM -0500 I heard the voice of >Garance A Drosihn, and lo! it spake thus: > >[...] > >> Why should we keep trying to stuff more and more things into 'make' >> variables in the Makefile for a port? I understand the advantage >> of having fewer files, so we want to put more information into the >> Makefile, but does that information really have to be done as >> 'make' variables? How about if we did it as some kind of fake-XML? > >Is there any reason /not/ to put them in make variables? To avoid the quoting problem... Don't forget, the change is temporarily backed out because of several problems that popped up when trying to apply it to all ports! If the change had gone in successfully, I would not have brought up the fake-xml idea until I had some working example of what I am thinking of. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message