Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 19:51:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@freebsd.org> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to people feel about adding an AUTHOR convention to ports? Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.960825194802.30980D-100000@skipper.eng.umd.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608251128.NAA18451@vector.jhs.no_domain>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Building on Jordan's original idea, + other people's supplemental ideas .... > > I suggest a small group of fields in `suggested cry for help' order :-) > Here's an example applicable to comms/hylafax/Makefile: > LIST_FREEBSD = hylafax@freebsd.org > MAINTAINER = jhs@freebsd.org > LIST_GENERIC = flexfax@sgi.com > AUTHOR_CURRENT = sam@sgi.com > AUTHOR_ORIGINAL = sam@sgi.com Julian, if it's not being used in bsd.port.mk, what possible use are the variables? Stuff like this might be more useful as a comment, or maybe in the DESCR file. I can't think of a single port that would need more info than the author of the original sources, and the FreeBSD maintainer[s]. If you put a lot of gratuitous stuff in your Makefile, it's just going to discourage folks from trying to figure out how to make more ports. > > > If nobody else is enthusiastic, I hope there will be no objection if I > > use it in my own port submissions? > > Let's document keywords in share/mk. Yes, if they have some functional use. > > > I'm sure we could also use the extra information to dress up the web > > pages a little bit. > > Yes, & they'd be standard hooks for bug reporting, support issues, etc. > > Julian > -- > Julian H. Stacey jhs@freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/~jhs/ > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------
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