Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 10:25:07 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CHANGE PROPOSAL] Moving WWW from pkg-descr to Makefile Message-ID: <CAF6rxgkz1iRZARvZX95gruNiBB%2BCWzqo7w16pdm12ep=wMuKpg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> References: <20121005140534.GB61272@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net>
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On 5 October 2012 10:05, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hi, > > 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? I've brought this up before in private, but I figure this is a good time to mention it. I'd prefer to see a more generic way of supplying * arbitrary* meta-data about ports in the makefile. For example something like META= WWW=https://example.com \ CHANGELOG=https://example.com/cl \ DESKTOP=kde \ REDPORTS=some-special-options \ PORTSCOUT=some-other-tool etc. I don't see a reason to treat the website as something special. That said, I don't object to plan of moving the current WWW line to the Makefile. I'm not sure why it was in pkg-descr in the first place. -- Eitan Adler
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