php category

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 25, 2007, at 05:34, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>>> port lint should probably just check the primary category... (at  
>>> least that's the only ones that are in the list it knows)
>>
>> Maybe port lint should just check that the first category listed  
>> matches the directory the portfile is actually in? So, for  
>> example, it would warn about the php5 port, whose port directory  
>> lives in the www directory, but the portfile defines the  
>> categories as "lang php www". Presumably that should instead be  
>> "www php lang".
>>
>> Or what did you mean by "primary category"?
>
> "First", which should be the same as the directory in which it is  
> stored. It's just that the Portfile is supposed to be able to come  
> from things other than a regular file, so I'm a little sceptic at  
> adding more hacks which assume that it is. Then again, a) it  
> already does assume a great deal about Portfile being a regular  
> file anyway and b) building directly from a .portpkg or a database  
> is probably lightyears away anyhow...

Hmm. I've been on these MacPorts lists for a couple years and this is  
the first I've heard of a portfile not being a file. Pardon the  
simple question, but what else could it be? :)