On Sep 14, 2009, at 08:01, Jack Howarth wrote:
Coming from working with fink for all these years, the first thing that struck me was how painful it is in MacPorts to visually scan through the various Portfiles. In fink, if you are looking for coding examples of packaging, you could go to one of the categories and quickly look through the various .info files for examples of the packaging you might want to implement. In MacPorts, because of the directory structure that nests the Portfile this is much more painful to do. Is there a way on the web site to quickly get to each Portfile without searching through tickets or such?
The only place on the web site to view the portfiles is in the Trac repository browser, so that's much more painful than looking through the files on disk, which I don't mind so much. The directory structure need not be a hindrance. Usually when looking for coding examples, I cd into the dports directory and do a grep on */*/Portfile.
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