Automatic homepage for sourceforge, googlecode, etc.
Joshua Root
jmr at macports.org
Sat Aug 22 13:40:04 PDT 2009
On 2009-8-23 03:37, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> For projects hosted on SourceForge or Google Code or other common sites
> we have simple ways of expressing the master_sites:
>
> master_sites sourceforge
>
> master_sites googlecode
> Wouldn't it be useful to be able to do that for the homepage as well?
> Could we simplify it like this?
>
> homepage sourceforge
>
> homepage googlecode
Meh. Having a googlecode mirror group is already rather silly IMO given
that it consists of exactly one URL.
Getting a very slightly shorter portfile in exchange for requiring an
extra step to find out the actual value of these fields seems like a
poor tradeoff.
- Josh
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