On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:36:11 -0400, Wesley Shields wrote
> While, it has to go somewhere and as a maintainer I have no problem
> printing out a description of each option inside a custom target.
> What's important is that there be some consistency in what that
> target is called. Even better would be to provide a framework to
> ease the work maintainers have to do. I envision the following:
>
> - For each available option have a variable called DESC_$FOO which
> is a string which describes that option in detail. - Whatever that
> target is called should be in bsd.ports.mk and output the contents
> of DESC_$FOO.
I think best it would be to extend the OPTIONS syntax from five to six fields,
adding a long description field. Two issues
1) what about backward compatibility with existing ports
2) is dialog(1) able to display such a text field?
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Pav Lucistnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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