On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 11:04:07PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 05:32:21PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:15:44PM +0100, Shaun Amott wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 04:05:35PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > > > > 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? > > > > > > A good idea in principle, but I think we need to take care to ensure > > > that the information is easily discoverable by end users. There's a risk > > > that burying the URLs in Makefiles might make them less accessible. > > > > > How that would be more complicated than the actual way? > > I wasn't aware there was an "actual" way; isn't `cat pkg-descr` the > easiest way of getting a synopsis of the port (including website)? > > > Given that there are 2 user friendly way to get the information: make search > > (which uses INDEX so no change in that area) and freshports and I will make > > sure > > that we will switch in sync with it. > > FreshPorts is great, but we shouldn't rely on it for basic information > and/or functionality. > > -- > Shaun Amott // PGP: 0x6B387A9A > "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin > of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I agree, maybe we can add a 'make www' to be able to output the WWW information regards, Bapt
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