I like both of these suggestions:

On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 14:48 -0700, Danek Duvall wrote:

>     build.tool=net.sourceforge.pkgbuild
>     net.sourceforge.pkgbuild,version=<value>
> 
> But since I'm not designing a build system that uses this data, it's hard
> for me to recommend one method over the other.

The build system only needs this information to verify that
it's something it can rebuild.  Longer term, it would be
great to have an option in the GUI for installing or even
rebuilding the corresponding source package.

> I know it's not been popular in the past, but I'll suggest the form
> 
>     developer/lua/src
>     web/firefox/src

I like this.  I'd thought that this would still match web/firefox
but apparently not.

Thanks,
Laca


> Since no one sane would ever name a package "src", there's no worry about
> name conflict, and it fits the source package into the hierarchy more
> sanely, IMHO.  Then again, perhaps your thought was that it *should* stand
> separately.
> 
> Danek

_______________________________________________
pkg-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss

Reply via email to