On Tue, Apr 13, 2004 at 07:22:26PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:53 AM +0200 4/14/04, Martin wrote: > >Am Tue, den 13.04.2004 schrieb Garance A Drosihn um 23:40: > > > > > If someone has a better format, and a format which will be > > > as easy for a simple program to process, I will be willing > > > to try that format instead. I am not too hung up on this > > > specific format. > > > >I would personally like it to use XML. I'm developing a small > >application which is a kind of GUI for ports (works like a > >browser). It is very difficult to parse the Makefiles to find > >out which version number and which dependencies it has. Some > >versions (like KDE3) are just variables and I don't have an > >idea how to fetch them yet. > > If it is easy for you to execute commands, then something > like: > > /bin/make -f /usr/ports/shells/bash2/Makefile -V PORTVERSION > > might give you the result you want. But I do not know if > that will work for all ports. It should, modulo s,/bin,/usr/bin, :-). Kris
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