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[Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:28:06 +0200
Vasil Dimov <vd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 12:25:01AM +0300, Ion-Mihai IOnut Tetcu wrote:
> > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:04:05 +0400
> > "Andrew Pantyukhin" <infofarmer at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> [...]
> > > [Wow, man, dspam ports is sure a place to learn many
> > > things :-) Great job!]
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > I'm pretty sure I re-invented the wheel a few times there; but
> > overall I consider it to be one of the most user-friendly ports we
> > have.
> > 
> > We could _optionally_ support that kind of UPDATING file in our
> > framework; and we also could support the check-options-version. 
> 
> Automatically displaying some part of files/UPDATING to the user is
> great. It would just be little more easier to manage if it would
> display up to the next entry (e.g. stop when line ^## is found)
> rather than a predefined number of lines. Thus eliminating the need
> to support the _UPD_LINE_NO variable.

Yup, good idea. And of course I wonder why I didn't thought of that :)


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