Re: git: b066d35050c7 - main - deskutils/readur: New port: Quick, painless, intuitive OCR platform

From: Daniel Engberg <diizzy_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:51:42 UTC
On 2025-07-24 10:11, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 21:58:55 +0000 Rene Ladan wrote:
>> On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 11:38:48PM +0300, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
>>>> +COMMENT=       Quick, painless, intuitive OCR platform
>>>> +WWW=https://github.com/readur/${PORTNAME}
>>> Could you please use plain text for WWW? So it can be copied and used directly.
>>>
>> Well, WWW is variable parsed by make, not by humans, so referencing
>> PORTNAME is legal here. It *was* a literal text back when it was
>> part of pkg-descr.
> Don't you consider that WWW is more useful when it serves not only to parsers
> but to humans also?
>
> Everything in Makefile is parsed by make, but we do not obfuscate for example
> MAINTAINER, right? What are the benefits in obfuscating WWW like this?
>
>>>> +WWW=https://github.com/readur/${PORTNAME}
> Should it behttps://github.com/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME} then?
>
> Or have I failed to parse it without make? :)
>
>
> Cheers,
> Max
fwiw, while it's not a requirement I think Max's request isn't 
unreasonable and adds convenience. That being said, there's still a lot 
of style (in)consistencies in tree overall. Best regards, Daniel