Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 17:32:21 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Shaun Amott <shaun@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] Moving WWW from pkg-descr to Makefile Message-ID: <20121005153221.GE61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20121005151544.GA9938@charon.picobyte.net> References: <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <20121005151544.GA9938@charon.picobyte.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:15:44PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > I want to propose and make the actual move of the WWW information from the > > pkg-descr to the Makefile itself via a WWW variable. > > > > doing this will have multiple benefits: > > * consistency all metadata bug this one are in Makefile > > * speedup make describe avoiding using grep to get the informations (make > > describe itself does not need speed but make index heavily use it and this > > will definitly benefit from speed up) > > * Third party tool will be able to probe the information more easily. > > > > Do anyone have any concern about this? > > A good idea in principle, but I think we need to take care to ensure > that the information is easily discoverable by end users. There's a risk > that burying the URLs in Makefiles might make them less accessible. > How that would be more complicated than the actual way? Given that there are 2 user friendly way to get the information: make search (which uses INDEX so no change in that area) and freshports and I will make sure that we will switch in sync with it. regards, Bapt [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlBu/YQACgkQ8kTtMUmk6ExZFACgtVlWsGlJfZEM41vQhYcCTF8I UYIAoKXQJdLQGZLs+EuOAEV4SPmykGMt =Mvnh -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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