Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports

[Kris Moore]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On 11/14/2013 03:39, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 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

This seems a great way to do it. I'm not picky as to how its done, just
as long as in PKGNG I can use pkg query '%foo' and pull the information ;)

- -- 
Kris Moore
PC-BSD Software
iXsystems
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (FreeBSD)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/

iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJShQQvAAoJEH/cIgwwV3zXYmUIAJsSvj9llOtyYgC/ri6pzCtn
DkWniQB4zZzjShyq6DIFXAb2DiCwFicjm368U76PbiixH2JLGlLrG7lxBuZsZAqt
W4vt+RifcEUSVsCCXP/Z8qItVL0cW2wEiWujqDhcWJSdZ7iPgcNyhEERkBpe67Dl
e4C8OpznljVE1lplDdWUCD8y8UUPTnpHOSPkx/t1KJxZIsIKFzkuPT1hArYZ4Cpn
wokJU2z+8uB9jmYq2QlOe4sFn9P07ZxBNGI1tCuTH1q9PNhj2xPK7y9GmGchv4GP
sh++Z/CxeDFKXKP/ex+wiogx0r7Mn3kqlb2A6zWSSO8tBHszVvAumJMPRXh8QHY=
=H8hI
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----