On 10/31/14, 11:56 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
Hi all,
tijl@ spotted an interesting point, distinfo and pkg-descr files files
convenient are taking a lot of space for "free", we can reduce the size of the
while ports tree by a factor 2 by simply merging them into one of the other
files (Makefile and/or pkg-plist) from my testing it really devides
significantly the size of the tree.
Problem is how to merge them if we want to.
What we do not want to loose:
- Easyness of parsing distinfo
- Easyness to get informations about the description
so far I have not been able to figure out a user friendly way
Ideas I got so far only concerns pkg-descr:
Adding an entry in the Makefile for the WWW:
WWW= bla
or an entry in the plist: @www http...
for the description the Makefile is not suitable as multi line entry in
Makefiles are painful
Maybe a new keyword:
@descr <<EOD
mydesc
in
multiline
EOD
which could easily be added to the plist parser in pkg. But I'm do not find that
very friendly in particular for make(1) to extract the data.
Concerning the distinfo I have no idea.
so this mail is a call of ideas :), if nothing nice ideas is found we will just
do nothing here :)
regards,
Bapt
Have you asked sjg about enhancing our make(1) to make HEREDOCs inside
makefiles cleaner/nicer?
That would be best idea imo. Then you could get rid of multiple files
and merge into makefiles. Maybe even eventually the patchfiles as well.
I had some basic thoughts on this, one trick would be to do like
perl(1)'s DATA section of scripts.
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13463509/the-data-syntax-in-perl
Other option is to make a separate shar(1)-like file to contain all meta
data and add targets to deterministically create/delete this file, this
file could include patches, description, plist and everything. In fact
it could contain the makefile itself...
Just some random thoughts that may/may-not find useful.
-Alfred
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