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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 16:24:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Munechika SUMIKAWA <sumikawa@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/security/openssh Makefile ports/security/openssh/patches patch-ad
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001181618270.26098-100000@green.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200001182108.NAA49771@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> This is make(1), make(1) tokens are seperated by whitespace, not commas,
> correct make syntax is:
> MAINTAINERS=	green@FreeBSD.org sumikawa@FreeBSD.org

Fair enough :)

> Anything trying to deal with this outside of make is broken, unless a
> specific make export of this data is written in a .mk or Makefile.
> 
> maintainers:
> 	echo $MAINTAINERS
> 
> is the simplest of export... :-)  If you need the comma's that is left as
> an excercise for the reader :-)

Of course, I believe there should be "maintainer" and "maintainers" targets.

> > What is MAINTAINER[S] used for? That needs to be addressed, not
> > Makefile syntax.
> 
> I agree, Makefile syntax is already clearly defined by make(1).
> 

Well, what is MAINTAINER used for now?  It stands for who is either
"owner" or "active maintainer, the contact for this if you need one"
of the code.  In this case, ${MAINTAINERS} would be who you would
contact for the OpenSSH port, Sumikawa san or myself.  I don't
really understand what is not to be implicitly understood by the
MAINTAINERS variable, since we all understand what the MAINTAINER
means and MAINTAINERS is just an extension of that logic.

> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25)               rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
> 

-- 
 Brian Fundakowski Feldman           \  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve!  /
 green@FreeBSD.org                    `------------------------------'



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