On 10/31/2014 1:56 PM, 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 >
I don't think the benefit is worth the effort on this. -- Regards, Bryan Drewery
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