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Date:      17 Jan 2003 12:03:16 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Martin Klaffenboeck <martin.klaffenboeck@gmx.at>
Cc:        Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com>, "P. U. Kruppa" <520023893678-0001@t-online.de>, freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Howto do ./marcusmerge ?
Message-ID:  <1042822996.328.10.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <20030117160226.GG337@martin.kdrache.org>
References:  <20030117135722.V34734@small.pukruppa.de> <1042814311.14047.21.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> <20030117151710.GC337@martin.kdrache.org> <1042818446.14047.45.camel@ds9.webonaut.com> <20030117160226.GG337@martin.kdrache.org>

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On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 11:02, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> Am 2003.01.17 16:47 schrieb(en) Franz Klammer:
> > On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 16:17, Martin Klaffenboeck wrote:
> > > Am 2003.01.17 15:38 schrieb(en) Franz Klammer:
> > > > Hi!
> > > >
> > > > First you must check out the ports module.
> > > > SRCDIR is the directory where you find all
> > > > the gnome 2.1-ports.
> > >
> > > Hm.  I'm using a different version of marcusmerge, maybe you can
> > have a
> > > look at it and merge some parts of it to your marcusmerge script?
> > >
> > > Here is my diff.
> > 
> > merging is Joe's part. i was the initiator of this script.
> > in the meantime it's more his work. :-)
> > 
> > but if you ask my opinion i think the the idea with the automatic
> > download is pretty good. to set the SRCDIR with `pwd` is - i think -
> > a little bit dangerous. what happens if someone put this script
> > into e.g. /usr/local/bin and forgets to cd into the right directory.
> > 
> > i think it's better to set SRCDIR per default to ~/ports, or better,
> > let SRCDIR empty and write a info message like "please set SRCDIR
> > where you want to safe the ports" *)
> 
> Thats correct.  I don't do many scripts.  Default to ~/ports is a good 
> solution I think.
> 
> I think, Joe will read this....

I like your modifications, and I'll commit them.  However, I have to
agree with Franz.  I don't think having a default directory is good at
all.  I think I'll set to it nothing, then "assert" unless the user
changes it.

Thanks for the submissions.

Joe

> 
> Martin
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