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?
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. regards, Bapt
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