Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-25 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 06:26:34AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > dave wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:20 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Correct. In fact, it possibly means the LICENSE ends up in the plist > >> twice, which is almost as bad as it not being mentioned at all. > > > > Ok, I t

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
dave wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:20 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Correct. In fact, it possibly means the LICENSE ends up in the plist twice, which is almost as bad as it not being mentioned at all. Ok, I think I'm starting to get a hang of this. Personally, I prefer the static pkg-plist.

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, dave wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:20 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Correct. In fact, it possibly means the LICENSE ends up in the plist > > twice, which is almost as bad as it not being mentioned at all. > > Ok, I think I'm starting to get a hang of this. Personally,

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread dave
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 22:20 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > Correct. In fact, it possibly means the LICENSE ends up in the plist > twice, which is almost as bad as it not being mentioned at all. Ok, I think I'm starting to get a hang of this. Personally, I prefer the static pkg-plist. There's one

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
dave wrote: After looking at the Makefile again, I noticed that the maintainer of hs-zlib defined PORTDOCS= * . If I understand correctly, that means you can put as many files in DOCSDIR as you want. The asterisk will match everything and you always end up with everything registered in the final

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread Alexey Shuvaev
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 09:23:18PM +0100, dave wrote: > On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 12:21 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > David Fries wrote: > > > Hi everybody > > > > > > I started working on my first port (a Haskell cabal package) over the > > > last weekend. I read the porter's handbook and then beg

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread dave
On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 12:21 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > David Fries wrote: > > Hi everybody > > > > I started working on my first port (a Haskell cabal package) over the > > last weekend. I read the porter's handbook and then began by looking > > at similar ports that already existed in the por

Re: Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
David Fries wrote: > Hi everybody > > I started working on my first port (a Haskell cabal package) over the > last weekend. I read the porter's handbook and then began by looking > at similar ports that already existed in the ports collection (e.g. > archivers/hs-zlib) to get a basic idea of what

Newbie question about additional documentation

2009-11-23 Thread David Fries
Hi everybody I started working on my first port (a Haskell cabal package) over the last weekend. I read the porter's handbook and then began by looking at similar ports that already existed in the ports collection (e.g. archivers/hs-zlib) to get a basic idea of what the port should look like. I