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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 09:05:45AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 14/07/2012 08:51, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:32:56AM +0400, Ruslan Mahmatkhanov wrote:
> >> 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.

Yes, this is also a good idea.  pkg-descr can be generated automagically in
this case for installed ports/packages.

./danfe