Reimplementation of portindex

Sergei Kolobov sergei at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 16 05:12:56 PDT 2004


On 2004-09-16 at 11:55 +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote:
> I had some spare time yesterday and started writing an INDEX generator.
> The code for everything sans the b_depends and r_depends is finished by
> now. Those two are a bit tricky because you have to take into account
> some special variables like the USE_GNOME stuff. To avoid having to suck
> and parse those files each time I'm thinking about a pre-parsed bsd.*.mk
> cache, which shouldn't be hard to implement.

Great news, Miguel! Let us know if you need any help.

> I'm writing the code in C and the license will be, of course, BSD.
> Hopefully I'll have a preview demo by the end of the week.

Excelllent!

Sergei


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