Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 20:50:33 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: billf@chc-chimes.com, tom@eborcom.com, mharo@area51.fremont.ca.us, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WWW_SITE variable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904132045040.578-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199904090740.AAA98824@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
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Apologies for the delay...first night that I haven't had to do a million
and one things, and am diving into this :(
Someone suggested/asked about the possibility of creating some sort of
pkg/XML file to store the extraneous information...is there any chance of
this happening? Right off the bat, I could see:
Y2K:
WWW:
MAINTAINER::
Moving to it
I'm moving WWW_SITE into DESCR right now, but it doesn't really seem to
fit in there :(
Having one central-to-a-port file that can be maintained and searched in
for that sort of information would be great, and makes it so much easier
to parse them for the ports.cgi...
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
> * From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
>
> * Yes, Marc Fournier <scrappy@FreeBSD.org> implemented both sides of this
> * change (the Makefiles / the cgi parse).
> *
> * One day, I should go and update my ports to include the WWW_SITE stuff.
> * Honestly, like what I'm hearing from you guys I was reluctant to touch it
> * because I hadn't heard anything official.
>
> Well, I was holding off saying anything in public in fear of
> embarrassing scrappy but I'm afraid can't wait any longer.
>
> These changes were not approved. We have been putting homepages in
> pkg/DESCR for years. I don't see any need in adding yet another knob
> to an already solved problem (which unsolves part of it...for
> instance, how is the package user supposed to see it?).
>
> I told scrappy to back them out a few weeks ago, he said he will, but
> has been "too busy" and that's why they are still there.
>
> -PW
>
>
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