svn commit: r327601 - head/Mk

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/21/2013 5:49 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 02:32:25AM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 08:05:05AM +0000, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>> New Revision: 327601
>>> URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/327601
>>>
>>> Log:
>>>   Move the target for sanity checking to the end of bsd.port.mk so that
>>>   WARNING and DEV_* can be defined anywhere
>>
>> From reading the diff, it looks like some part of the portlint(1) was now
>> moved under Mk/.  I don't understand why, and what benefits does it bring?
>>
>> Previously we sometimes had to deal with situation when b.p.m. and friends
>> code would not match each other, but at least code inside Mk/ was always
>> consistent.  Now it cannot be longer guaranteed.
>>
>> ./danfe
> 
> That allows to do things portlint is not able to do: warn the users for
> instance,
> that allows to be quicker than portlint to wan the dev, more and more QA is
> coming inside the ports tree directly, stage support opens a way to improve a
> lot that will all go. portlint is very good and allow checka that we are not
> able to do in port and vice versa.
> 
> regards
> Bapt
> 

We also plan to add more commit hooks for things that portlint has
checked for. Not everyone runs portlint, and portlint is essentially
unmaintained. It is currently severely lagging behind in feature-set
checking. By moving to ports, the feature-set checking is always
matching the tree.

-- 
Regards,
Bryan Drewery

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