On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:29:49 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <kamik...@bsdforen.de> wrote:
> On 28/10/2013 09:58, John Marino wrote: > > On 10/28/2013 09:53, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > >> On 28/10/2013 09:47, Łukasz Wąsikowski wrote: > >>> W dniu 2013-10-28 09:41, Dominic Fandrey pisze: > >>> > >>>> Neither staging nor license management are described in the > >>>> Porters' Handbook. > >>>> > >>>> Why again should we bother to support it? > >>>> > >>>> What happened to "the feature that is not documented doesn't > >>>> exist"? > >>> > >>> Lack of good documentation is real problem for me to convert > >>> ports to staging. Porter's Handbook is seriously lagging behind > >>> recent changes - staging, license management, shabang fixes, etc. > >> > >> If it was up for a vote, I'd vote for a feature stop until the PH > >> is back in a decent condition. > >> > >> Kudos to the people who documented the new options framework. > >> > > > > For all intents and purposes - licensing "feature" doesn't exist. > > The same issues you are raising have been raised before. > > Apparently the full licensing infrastructure is still lacking so > > it's in some kind of limbo. > > > > However, converting to stagedir is reasonably documented here: > > https://wiki.freebsd.org/ports/StageDir > > That's a handfull. What about installers that hard-code directories > during install? > > > You don't have a choice with supporting stage -- new ports without > > stage aren't accepted. So that's why you have to bother. :) > > That doesn't sound acceptable, considering the feature isn't even > mentioned in the Porters' Handbook. > I agree, making something mandatory that's not in the handbook at all is bad. At the bare minimum the feature should be mentioned in there, even if it's just a stub referring to the Wiki. -- Michael Gmelin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
