Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:30:08 +0100 From: Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org> To: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> Cc: FreeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl>, Kris Moore <kris@pcbsd.org> Subject: Re: Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports Message-ID: <20131114073008.GG90670@droso.dk> In-Reply-To: <CAF6rxgmdewA=jtWL-8dyGrzSFTkxM2P8jWDYYcXr4BXOEdgx_w@mail.gmail.com> References: <5283E4A0.6090107@pcbsd.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1311132124560.48376@fire.magemana.nl> <CAF6rxgmdewA=jtWL-8dyGrzSFTkxM2P8jWDYYcXr4BXOEdgx_w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:47:20PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn@magemana.nl> wrote: > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Kris Moore wrote: > > > >> > >> Wanted to run this by the ports community, see your thoughts. We build > >> our PBIs from the ports system, and are able to parse most of the > >> information out for display graphically, like descriptions, maintainers, > >> website, License, etc. However we currently don't have a way to pull the > >> actual name of the upstream vendor / author. I.E. for Firefox the vendor > >> would be "Mozilla". > > > > > > WWW: [Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.org/) > > > > So, markdown format in pkg-descr. Seems the least amount of work? > > This adds a lot of work to the parser. > > IMHO we should have VENDOR_WWW and possibly VENDOR_NAME in the port's > Makefile. It should not be hard to automate this for VENDOR_WWW since > we already have the WWW: lines in pkg-descr. > That sounds like an excellent idea. I'm just a bit worried about spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the current WWW. I know we're not consistent already with things like COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to where these end up. Erwin -- Erwin Lansing http://droso.dk erwin@FreeBSD.org http:// www.FreeBSD.org
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