Date: Fri, 02 Aug 1996 10:39:42 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Automatic port generation Message-ID: <199608021639.KAA02803@rover.village.org>
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jkh> That sounds pretty reasonable, though again I'd caution you jkh> against making `makeport' a monolithic utility which "knows" jkh> which questions to ask and rather design it as a fairly jkh> intelligent "ports variable description file" and a library of jkh> functions for dealing with it. Then you can write this Q&A jkh> sequence as a series of questions, as you show above, or you can jkh> later migrate to some much fancier Tk based thingie. While I agree with this approach, in general, I'd rather have a quick and dirty hack for a makeports with continuing work to make it elegant than have to wait for the elegant makeports down the line. Warner
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