Proposal for Authors / Vendors in ports

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:11:11PM -0500, Kris Moore wrote:
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> 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 ;)
> 

What can be done is to automatically add it into annotations, so querying
annotation should give you the right information :)

regards,
Bapt
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