Stacey Jonathan Marshall wrote: > On 10/06/2009 12:10, Paul Cunningham wrote: > > [...] >> >> >> 7. usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWbindc/Makefile >> & usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWbind/Makefile >> Observation: should this really contain the prototype_com.new >> development stuff (lines 39-96), its most confusing; I think >> it would be better somewhere else (if its really required). >> >> END > Being the original author of that code in > usr/src/pkgdefs/SUNWbind/Makefile I disagree. > > At the time of integrating bind 9.3.3 I wondered just how the > prototype_com had been created and so asked the original author whom > exclaimed they had used a perl script which at that time they could not > find; sometime later a half finished script was sent to me. Thus rather > than have the next person wonder about how to create the file I wrote > the instructions into the Makefile so that they could be seen, reviewed > and understood. Interestingly there used to be a README in > usr/src/cmd/bind that explained some other useful stuff but alas that > was removed before the gate was made public and thus I'd rather keep the > secret to prototype_com in the Makefiles.
I will not argue about it as it was only an observation - but it still seems to be the wrong place for it in my opinion. Paul :-)
