cvs commit: ports/games/gcompris Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist

[Ruslan Mahmatkhanov]

Matthew Seaman wrote on 14.07.2012 12:05:
> On 14/07/2012 08:51, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
>>> Alexey Dokuchaev wrote on 14.07.2012 11:03:
>>>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:23:50AM +0000, Koop Mast wrote:
>>>>> kwm         2012-07-13 10:23:50 UTC
>>>>>
>>>>>    Modified files:
>>>>>      games/gcompris       Makefile distinfo pkg-descr pkg-plist
>>>>>    Log:
>>>>>    [...]
>>>>>    Add tab in WWW line in pkg-descr.
>>>>
>>>> I think the last change takes us backwards: space is preferred separator in
>>>> WWW: line of pkg-descr AFAICT.
>>>
>>> I always replace this space with a tab (in a manner as vars and values
>>> are separated in Makefile). Does it documented somewhere? And what the
>>> reason may be of space is preferable? Thanks.
>>
>> Well, pkg-descr is not a Makefile.  In makefiles, tabs help to align the
>> values nicely, as it helps readability a lot.  On the contrary, pkg-descr is
>> mostly simple text, so there is not need to abuse tab here where single
>> space perfectly suffices and IMHO looks a lot better.
>>
>> Sadly, as with other stylish rather than functional issues, it does not seem
>> to be documented.  Hopefully after switch to SVN it would be easier to
>> isolate this kind of mechanical commits, and I will ask permission to
>> convert every port to single space + submit a patch to someone on doc@ team
>> to be added to PH.
>
> Actually, it would make a lot of sense to take the WWW entries out of
> pkg-descr files entirely, and have them a variable in the main port
> Makefile instead.
>
> This would, at a stroke, reduce the number of files that need to be read
> to generate the INDEX by a factor of around 2, and consequentially speed
> things up.
>
> 	Cheers,
>
> 	Matthew

+1.

I also want to say that this is the only string that's parsed by various 
scripts, so it's more "service line", than simple text.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

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