On 5/14/11 5:47 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 05/14/2011 14:23, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> On 5/14/11 4:48 PM, Doug Barton wrote: >>> Isn't the issue whether or not 70 characters will wrap in any of the >>> places that COMMENT is used? >> >> That's a concern, but the fact is most people base the length of COMMENT >> on the recommendation of portlint (which has been 70 characters >> forever). No one has complained about COMMENT wrapping at 70 characters >> that I have heard of. Do you know of any place where a COMMENT> 60 >> characters wraps? > > You're the one asserting that 70 characters is safe. :) >
I'm asserting that people have been limiting their COMMENTs to 70 characters based on portlint's recommendations for some time. pkg_info [-I] will truncate COMMENTs at 59 characters, but even with that limit, the COMMENTs may wrap. The goal is to give porters enough space to display a meaningful COMMENT while not overflowing a standard 80 column terminal. When viewing the COMMENT in the Makefile strlen(COMMENT=) + 70 < 80. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: [email protected] FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
