On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 05:08:45PM -0800, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On Dec 05, 2006, at 13:59 , Doug Barton wrote: > > >Wesley Shields wrote: > >>>@comment DISTFILE:$filename:$size:$md5:$sha256 > > > >I think that's good, the other information might come in handy down > >the road. One thing you might want to consider is to put the md5 sum > >at the end, since at some point down the road (maybe years from now, > >but still ...) we're likely to drop md5 altogether. > > Better still would be: > > @comment DISTFILE:<filename>[':' <key>=<value>]* > > eg: DISTFILE:foo:SIZE=1234:MD5=...:SHA256=... > > Relying on the specific position of an item in a delimited list > almost always comes back and bites in painful spots later on down the > way. Minimal extra parsing required by consumers, and bits and > pieces can be added/removed almost at will. > > -aDe
I agree. I'll modify Doug's latest patch to add this. -- WXS _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
