From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jan 17 1:30:43 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [192.109.159.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6851C37B6A5; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:30:24 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by picalon.gun.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA10560; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:30:13 +0100 (MET) >Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0H9OtM03279; Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:24:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:24:55 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: will@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how to tag ports before doing major changes and suggestion ... Message-ID: <20010117102455.A1328@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <20010116133356.A26389@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20010116194805.P3054@puck.firepipe.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010116194805.P3054@puck.firepipe.net>; from will@physics.purdue.edu on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:48:05PM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE SMP X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/" Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:48:05PM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:44:32AM +0100, Cyrille Lefevre wrote: > > as I remember. Will Andrew (CC:) began to do that some time ago. > > no sure about a consensus about his point of view. >=20 > Actually, it was David O'Brien 's idea. Others > picked it up after him, including me (where possible). Well, Maxim was against that. He suggested making use of cvs checkout -D. 'though I'd like "spoken names" more ;-) If we would choose symbolic names in the ports area, then the tricky part is certainly to deceide, when does it make sense and when not to use them. Having nearly 5000 ports is certainly a big multiplicator for the use of symbolic tags all over the place. For me personally I deceided not to use them, until I see a consens or a note in the porters handbook. And I want to repeat, that I'd really like to see a complete ascii file of the porters handbook if possible. It would make searching for strings like "tag" more easier without having to read the complete handbook. [ trimmed To and Cc ] Andreas /// --=20 Andreas Klemm - Powered by FreeBSD 4.2 SMP Need a magic printfilter today ? -> http://www.apsfilter.org/ --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Weitere Infos: siehe http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6ZWTmd3o+lGxvbLoRAhwqAJ9R2LHPNdEikQS7DGIPfWjqUms2UwCfZvGX WKnPH6/FdYlJSonGdWs+Xus= =cEFg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message