why vim ports have personal KNOBS for options

[David Demelier]

On 27/03/2011 21:40, Subbsd wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Erik Trulsson<ertr1013 at student.uu.se>  wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:19:44PM +0400, Subbsd wrote:
>>> Ive wanted to ask why the option of vim port has not yet been handed
>>> via dialog by default. Personally, to make them work, we must define
>>> WITH_OPTIONS=yes in make.conf (or WITH_VIM_OPTIONS=yes). Life without
>>> it is so difficult ;)
>>
>> Because the maintainer of the vim port has a dislike for the OPTIONS
>> framework.
>>
>
>
> I expected to hear that just so happened historically. Тext question I
> ask only to satisfy my interest. What OPTIONS framework basically can
> someone not like it?
> Цhat are the disadvantages compared to " grep define
> /usr/ports/<category>/<portname>/Makefile "? Maybe the other of
> thousand maintainrs something not know about it?
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bapt@ made a proposal to improve the OPTION framework and it will be 
reviewed by portmgr@ soon.

This will include a improvment that obrien@ disliked much : when you 
have WITHOUT_NLS=true in your /etc/make.conf any port that use OPTIONS 
framework will not honour this knob and this is obviously painful.

The bapt@ patch correct this, so the the new OPTION framework will read 
these KNOBS (but of course there is more coming)

Cheers,

-- 
David Demelier