Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:25:22 -0500 From: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> To: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: final call: VERSION variable Message-ID: <20000331002522.D7713@argon.blackdawn.com> In-Reply-To: <20000330213346.I14845@lovett.com>; from ade@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:33:46PM -0600 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003292033520.32828-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> <vqcu2ho4p6h.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <86aejgwf92.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <vqc4s9o3vhr.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000330192823.A7713@argon.blackdawn.com> <vqc8zz02btr.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <20000330213346.I14845@lovett.com>
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On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:33:46PM -0600, Ade Lovett wrote: > The PKGNAME->PORTNAME/VERSION is definitely a good idea, and I'll > do whatever I can to help convert things over. Agreed. > My only question is whether we should take this opportunity > (since we're going to be touching every single port Makefile) > to do some other cruft cleanup... like removing all of the > comments at the top.. maybe that's too draconian, but I really > don't see the point in having them there.. it's not like they're > all over the rest of the tree. How 'bout a.out support? We could rip that out too. :) > Since this is a big change, I think it's worthy of an announcement > saying that things may be a little on the unstable side in > -ports land for a while -- it might help to cut down on the > number of "Hey! You broke all my ports!" messages... Yes. Satoshi should do an "announcement"-style message in case anyone decided to ignore this thread. :-) -- Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com> 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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