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On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Steve Long |
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<slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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>> If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after |
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>> src_unpack, to avoid having lots of things of the form: |
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>> src_unpack() { |
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>> default |
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>> patch blah |
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>> eautoreconf |
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>> } |
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> Besides saving one line of typing, what is the benefit of adding this new |
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> phase? |
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Uh, count again. It's not just one line of typing saved. |
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The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid |
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all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about |
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which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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