20 марта 2015 г. 0:12 пользователь "Kent R. Spillner" <kspill...@acm.org>
написал:
>
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:55:23PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > I don't know about this. There's no "72 col for DESCR" rule in ports.
> > I think 72 was mainly a common value because it allows a couple of ">"
> > quotes for news/email without flowing past 80 cols.
>
> That makes sense.  portcheck only checks that lines in DESCR are < 80.
> Should we tweak the porters' guide?
>
> Index: faq/ports/guide.html
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /work/cvsroot/www/faq/ports/guide.html,v
> retrieving revision 1.34
> diff -p -u -r1.34 guide.html
> --- faq/ports/guide.html        3 Dec 2014 11:54:42 -0000       1.34
> +++ faq/ports/guide.html        19 Mar 2015 21:07:23 -0000
> @@ -450,9 +450,9 @@ article altogether.</b>
>  <br><br><li>
>  Put a longer description of the port into <tt>pkg/DESCR</tt>.
>  One to a few paragraphs concisely explaining what the port does is
sufficient.
> -It is also advised to wrap your lines at 72 characters.
> +It is also advised to wrap your lines at 80 characters.
>  This can be done by first editing the <tt>DESCR</tt> file and then
running it
> -through <tt><b>fmt -w 72</b></tt>.
> +through <tt><b>fmt -w 80</b></tt>.
>
>  <br><br><li>
>  If the application needs to create a user or a group, choose the lowest
free
>

okay zhuk@ FWIW. The portcheck was adjusted from 72 to 80 some time ago
after discussion, but web pages were forgotten.

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Vadim Zhukov

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