On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 10:25:07AM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 5 October 2012 10:05, Baptiste Daroussin <[email protected]> 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.
While the idea sounds good, how do you retrive the informations out of a simple make command, and possibilty with limiting the parsing as much as possible? equivalent of make -VWWW (for example for make describe) regards, Bapt
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