On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 06:22:27PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke thus spake:
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
I updated the handbook sometime ago to the limit of 60, from 70. Is that
incorrect? I
do agree, though, that portlint should warn on that.
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