On 2013-Feb-04, 19:19, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: > Hi, > > I have some improvements to the ports tree to propose, and I'm looking for > testers/opinions > > First let me explain: > > I want to introduce a new USE_FEATURES macro into the ports tree > > The goal of this macros is to be able to standardize how we call all the USE_* > things as well as creating some "load on demand" code for a corresponding > feature. > > What I expect in long term is to get a more readable bsd.port.mk & friends, > meaning easier to maintain > > I except some performance improvements given that make will have to parse less > things. > > I also expect less complexity if bsd.*.mk code. > > What will have is all/most of the code corresponding to a USE_SOMETHING right > now will endup in a Mk/features/something.mk which will be loaded only if the > ports defines: > USE_FEATURES= something > > the loading is done at the very early stage of bsd.port.post.mk to allow one > to > load modify USE_FEATURES depending on some options etc. > > each features/*.mk is itself protected by a variable to avoid multi loading of > the same file > > if a feature depends on another one the feature itself just have to ".include" > the other one.
Very nice idea, I'm looking forward to taking advantage of it! -- Pietro Cerutti The FreeBSD Project g...@freebsd.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp
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