Appropriate way of submitting multiple related ports at once?

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 19 19:18:11 PDT 2007


On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Edwin Groothuis wrote:

> Hello Quinton,
>
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 11:49:55PM +1000, Q wrote:
>> I have written a collection of ports (16 in total) for building a
>> typical Apple WebObjects deployment environment. As most of these
>> ports depend on one another in some way could someone advise what the
>> most appropriate way to submit these ports as a bundle would be?
>
> This is going to be tricky :-)

Heh. :)

> The way I would do it is to submit the ports one by one and keep
> the synopsis recognizable:
>
>    [NEW PORT] Apple WebObjects Deployment Environment: www/foobar

I think Edwin's advice is good, the only thing I'd add is maybe an "N of 
M" to the synopsis to make it easier to keep them grouped.

Doug

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