XTL is a library of template classes and functions for reading/writing
structured data to/from an external (platform independent) representation.
This process is also usually known as marshalling, serialization or pickling,
and is useful both for heterogeneous network programming and portable
persistent storage.
Currently, XTL supports XDR (Internet standard), GIOP CDR (CORBA standard)
and readable ascii text (write-only) as data formats. Memory buffers and C++
iostreams are usable as data sources/targets. Besides the usual C data types
(basic, structs, pointers, unions), the XTL also supports C++ constructs,
such as pointers to base classes and template types, namely, STL containers.
XTL does not include any kind of IDL, and as such, the programmer is required
to write a "filter" for each data type. The API is somewhat modeled on the
original XDR library by Sun, in that the same filter is used for both reading
and writing. However, heavy usage of templates makes the API simpler and type
safe. Function inlining and careful avoidance of pointers or virtual
functions, also make generated code faster.
Remove WWW entries moved into port Makefiles
Commit b7f05445c00f has added WWW entries to port Makefiles based on
WWW: lines in pkg-descr files.
This commit removes the WWW: lines of moved-over URLs from these
pkg-descr files.
Approved by: portmgr (tcberner)
Add WWW entries to port Makefiles
It has been common practice to have one or more URLs at the end of the
ports' pkg-descr files, one per line and prefixed with "WWW:". These
URLs should point at a project website or other relevant resources.
Access to these URLs required processing of the pkg-descr files, and
they have often become stale over time. If more than one such URL was
present in a pkg-descr file, only the first one was tarnsfered into
the port INDEX, but for many ports only the last line did contain the
port specific URL to further information.
There have been several proposals to make a project URL available as
a macro in the ports' Makefiles, over time.
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devel: remove 'Created by' lines
A big Thank You to the original contributors of these ports:
* "Waitman Gobble" <uzimac@da3m0n8t3r.com>
* <jkoshy@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@FreeBSD.org>
* Aaron Dalton <aaron@daltons.ca>
* Aaron H. K. Diep <ahkdiep@gmail.com>
* Aaron Hurt <ahurt@anbcs.com>
* Abel Chow <abel_chow@yahoo.com>
* Adam McLaurin
* Adam Saponara <as@php.net>
* Adam Weinberger <adamw@FreeBSD.org>
* Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org>
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Remove indefinite articles and trailing periods from COMMENT, plus
minor COMMENT typos and surrounding whitespace fixes. Categories D-F.
CR: D196
Approved by: portmgr (bapt)
