On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 09:05:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 14/07/2012 08:51, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote: > >> I always replace this space with a tab (in a manner as vars and values > >> are separated in Makefile). Does it documented somewhere? And what the > >> reason may be of space is preferable? Thanks. > > > > Well, pkg-descr is not a Makefile. In makefiles, tabs help to align the > > values nicely, as it helps readability a lot. On the contrary, pkg-descr > > is mostly simple text, so there is not need to abuse tab here where single > > space perfectly suffices and IMHO looks a lot better. > > > > Sadly, as with other stylish rather than functional issues, it does not > > seem to be documented. Hopefully after switch to SVN it would be easier > > to isolate this kind of mechanical commits, and I will ask permission to > > convert every port to single space + submit a patch to someone on doc@ > > team to be added to PH. > > Actually, it would make a lot of sense to take the WWW entries out of > pkg-descr files entirely, and have them a variable in the main port > Makefile instead. > > This would, at a stroke, reduce the number of files that need to be read > to generate the INDEX by a factor of around 2, and consequentially speed > things up.
Yes, this is also a good idea. pkg-descr can be generated automagically in this case for installed ports/packages. ./danfe _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "cvs-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"