[HEADSUP] New framework options aka optionng

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:41:32PM -0400, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> portmgr has been working for long on a new option framework for the ports to improve some of the deficiencies in the current framework.  The new framework not only streamlines the current inconsistencies, but also adds new paradigms like exclusive options, one-of-many, many-of-many, and more.
> 
> All the details has been documented and written down on the wiki:
> http://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/Options/OptionsNG
> 
> Documentation on how to use it available here
> http://www.bayofrum.net/~crees/rendered/porters-optionsng.html#MAKEFILE-OPTIONS
> 
> patch here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~portmgr/optionsng.diff
> 
> The two only ports that are known broken ghostscript8 and ghostscript9:
> patch available here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~portmgr/ghostscript-optionsng.patch
> 
> I'd like to specially thanks crees for help on documentation.
> 
> regards,
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A bug was spotted by Bryan Drewery and has been fixed,
http://people.freebsd.org/~portmgr/optionsng.diff has been updated.

FYI the bug was: the option framework did take correctly the default values,
when set with the old OPTIONS format.

regards,
Bapt
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