Re: git: e432d0424f2f - main - databases/nanodbc: Fix compilation with clang19; Improve pkg-descr

From: Matthias Andree <mandree_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025 21:50:23 UTC
> --- a/databases/nanodbc/pkg-descr
> +++ b/databases/nanodbc/pkg-descr
> @@ -1 +1,11 @@
> -nanodbc is a small library that makes ODBC API programming easy and fun again.
> +nanodbc is a small C++ library that simplifies ODBC API programming.
> +
> +nanodbc is a small C++ wrapper for the native C ODBC API. It aims to make
> +common database tasks easy with concise code, incorporating modern C++
> +standards.



> +
> +Features:
> +* Portable and robust
> +* Transaction support
> +* Bound parameters
> +* Clean separation of interface and implementation using the pimpl idiom

That's marketing nonsense mixed with deep-down implementation details 
with random items listed from various levels that don't make sense in 
that arrangement.  It's not a useful technical description.   Please 
revert the pkg-descr change.

I also content without proof that it was AI generated and challenge you 
to prove it was not AI mixing and matching random unlicensed texts, or 
concede it was AI output that's unsuitable for application to ports.

You are *NOT* improving pkg-descr by random bits collected here and 
there that you mix up in those pkg-descr commits.

You could read three prose paragraphs of [1] and come up with a better 
description.  I could, but I want you to stop making new work for 
everybody else with your immature pkg-descr efforts.

If you're trying to invalidate all the pkg-descr you touch, you're on a 
good way, but it's not agreed upon that it's the FreeBSD ports's way.

[1] https://github.com/nanodbc/nanodbc

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Matthias Andree
FreeBSD ports committer