git: 0d32a5b3a674 - main - devel/envsubst: new port

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 02:05:24PM +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:59:58AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:24:06AM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 09:20:19AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 08:43:21AM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> > > > > ...
> > > > > commit 0d32a5b3a674a636b4a42d237b56d2dcd0847b4e
> > > > > Author:     Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at FreeBSD.org>
> > > > > AuthorDate: 2021-04-15 08:41:48 +0000
> > > > > 
> > > > >     devel/envsubst: new port
> > > > 
> > > > How's it better than textproc/xenv?
> > > 
> > > Don't know, I have never played with xenv ;) just reading the source,
> > > I way prefer envsubst over xenv :D
> > 
> > Regardless of the code quality, any specific reason why was it placed in
> > the overpopulated `devel' category but not in a less inhabited and more
> > specific one, e.g. `textproc'?
> 
> Because it is not a text processing utility?
> 
> -- 
> Mathieu Arnold


I hesitated where to put it, and ended it putting it in devel, because it is
actually a reimplementation of a utility which is provided by gettext.

My goal with this tool and with gettext-tiny which I added later is to be able
to reduce the number of ports which requires/uses gettext tools at buid time.

This will make a dependency chain way lighter than the actual one for many
ports.

And actually envsubst is a quite useful tool in general ;)

Best regards,
Bapt