Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 08:30:08AM +0100, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 04:47:20PM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Melvyn Sopacua <melvyn at magemana.nl> wrote:
> > > On Wed, 13 Nov 2013, Kris Moore wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> Wanted to run this by the ports community, see your thoughts. We build
> > >> our PBIs from the ports system, and are able to parse most of the
> > >> information out for display graphically, like descriptions, maintainers,
> > >> website, License, etc. However we currently don't have a way to pull the
> > >> actual name of the upstream vendor / author. I.E. for Firefox the vendor
> > >> would be "Mozilla".
> > >
> > >
> > > WWW: [Mozilla](http://www.mozilla.org/)
> > >
> > > So, markdown format in pkg-descr. Seems the least amount of work?
> > 
> > This adds a lot of work to the parser.
> > 
> > IMHO we should have VENDOR_WWW and possibly VENDOR_NAME in the port's
> > Makefile.  It should not be hard to automate this for VENDOR_WWW since
> > we already have the WWW: lines in pkg-descr.
> > 
> 
> That sounds like an excellent idea.  I'm just a bit worried about
> spreading the information over too many places, and would rather split
> content from logic and add these to pkg-descr as well next to the
> current WWW.  I know we're not consistent already with things like
> COMMENT and LICENSE already in the Makefile, so won't ojbect too much to
> where these end up.
> 
> Erwin
> 
That is easy to fix:
VENDOR= MOZILLA
MOZILLA_VENDOR_NAME=  mozilla
MOZILLA_VENDOR_WWW=  http://www.mozilla.org/

and a bsd.vendor.mk the same way we have bsd.options.mk

if MOZILLA_VENDOR_NAME and MOZILLA_VENDOR_WWW are already in bsd.vendor.mk the
port just have to specify VENDOR: MOZILLA

Don't know if it is worth capitalizing :)

regards,
Bapt
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