On Oct 27, 2018, at 17:37, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> No, I do not want to reintegrate the 60-some checksums into the portfile, I
> don't want to split it up and I don't want to rewrite my checksum generator
> script either. My question was how I can make the source command apply
> globally.
>
> Or if it's more politically correct, why doesn't the source command run in
> the global scope while it's perfectly possible to set variables in there -
> you don't even have to declare them global.
>
> What I'm doing isn't really all that different from how patchfiles work:
> those are also external files that aren't copied into the registry (last I
> looked, this morning) and there too this doesn't create issues because
> they're not used when running the copy from the registry.
MacPorts used to have an include statement, but it was removed in MacPorts
1.9.0 when we started storing Portfiles in the registry. If you want to see how
it worked, you can look at the commit where it was removed:
https://trac.macports.org/changeset/68206
We could re-add it, or maybe change the source command to work how the include
command used to work. But I'm not convinced that we should do that. There
aren't many reasons why an include file would be useful, and we evidently
haven't needed it for the past 8 years. Rainer used it in a few of his ports
before it was removed; I don't think any other developers did.
