On 2015-6-24 07:21 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Jun 22, 2015, at 4:42 PM, Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
> 
>> On Jun 4, 2015, at 7:32 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> I agree setup procs are not the best.
>>
>> I also don't like that the semantics of the arguments are not obvious. We 
>> might know from experience what the different components of
>>
>>    github.setup foo bar 1.0 foo-
>>
>> mean, but it doesn't lend itself to being understood. And then each 
>> portgroup with a setup proc uses different arguments.
> 
> Well sure, each portgroup has different needs. As long as the arguments are 
> documented, which they are for the github portgroup, that's at least 
> something.

If we must have setup procs, their invocations should be readable. They
should take named args, e.g. '-somearg foo -otherarg bar' or
'somearg=foo otherarg=bar'.

- Josh
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