Re: Literal text WWW in ports Makefile

17.11.2025 20:39, Adam Weinberger пишет:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 12:12 PM Chris <i.h8.git@bsdforge.com> wrote:
>
>     On 2025-11-15 12:21, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
>     > On Sat, 15 Nov 2025 19:43:26 +0100 Zsolt Udvari wrote:
>     >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2025 at 09:16:30PM +0300, Max Brazhnikov wrote:
>     >> > WWW also was a literal text when it just migrated to
>     Makefile. Why it should
>     >> > be obfuscated now? No difference for the make, but less
>     convenient for humans:
>     >> > plain text url can be opened from the editor without running
>     the make.
>     >>
>     >> The github, gitlab and pear set a WWW (if it isn't defined in
>     Makefile) so
>     >> you can't open the url without running make. If you want see
>     plain text
>     >> url should remove these definitions from Mk/bsd.sites.mk
>     <http://bsd.sites.mk> and
>     >
>     > I'm ok with this, framework may set WWW for ports, and ports can
>     redefine it
>     > if needed. But if WWW is explicitly set in the Makefile it
>     should be plain
>     > url.
>
>     If either is possible. Why should it not be what is easiest or
>     most efficient
>     for the
>     Maintainer/Developer at the time?
>
>
> Because it should be what is most helpful and useful for end-users, 
> not the maintainer.
>
> It's a worse experience for the end-user, doesn't actually save the 
> maintainer any time, and really the only benefit is that the port 
> needs fewer changes if the name of the program suddenly changes, which 
> occurs once every never.
>
> We are not the customer, nor is make(1).
>
>
> -- 
> Adam Weinberger
> adamw@adamw.org // adamw@FreeBSD.org

This is even more convenient for other committers. I often have to 
commit other maintainers's ports, and the non-plaintext WWW variable 
"gets in the way". Instead of simply copying the URL from the console 
and opening it in the browser, I have to perform additional steps, such 
as either copying it in two steps or running make -V WWW.
I'm in favor of parameterizing all other variables except WWW.
If there is a vote, where can I vote? 😂

-- 
Best regards,
Vladimir Druzenko