[FreeBSD-Ports-Announce] [HEADSUP] New framework options aka optionng

[Erwin Lansing]

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Hi,

portmgr has been working for long on a new option framework for the ports to improve some of the deficiencies in the current framework.  The new framework not only streamlines the current inconsistencies, but also adds new paradigms like exclusive options, one-of-many, many-of-many, and more.

All the details has been documented and written down on the wiki:
http://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/Options/OptionsNG

Documentation on how to use it available here
http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/rendered/porters-optionsng.html#MAKEFILE-OPTIONS

patch here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~portmgr/optionsng.diff

The two only ports that are known broken ghostscript8 and ghostscript9:
patch available here:
http://people.freebsd.org/~portmgr/ghostscript-optionsng.patch

I'd like to specially thanks crees for help on documentation.

On behalf of portmgr,
Erwin