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

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 be https://github.com/${PORTNAME}/${PORTNAME} then?

Or have I failed to parse it without make? :)


Cheers,
Max