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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