Looks okay, but shouldn't the whole list be alphabetical? CPAN is out of place, for a start.

In D2539#47084, @wblock wrote:

Looks okay, but shouldn't the whole list be alphabetical? CPAN is out of place, for a start.

I hoped no one would notice that ?

It's because CPAN is short for PERL_CPAN, as SF is short for SOURCEFORGE, but I replaced the long forms with the short form at one point, and forgot to reorder…

Maybe it's time to add a third column to the table for a note or reference that shows what that particular macro applies to or when it is used.

This is nice. I was just thinking of a third column on the existing table, which could have the shorter version:

That might make it easier to find the shorter versions, because they are right with the long one. However, whichever way you want to do it is fine.

In D2539#47272, @wblock wrote:

This is nice. I was just thinking of a third column on the existing table, which could have the shorter version:

Macro	Alternate Name	Assumed subdirectory
PERL_CPAN	CPAN	${PORTNAME:C/-.*//}
SAMBA		${PORTNAME}

That might make it easier to find the shorter versions, because they are right with the long one. However, whichever way you want to do it is fine.

I started with doing just that, but then, half the shortcuts are not magic macros, only short versions (like RUBYGEMS -> RG), and it did not feel right to put them in the magic section.