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On 09/22/2012 09:55 AM, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> The current dependency syntax: |
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> [VERSION-OP] PACKAGE-NAME ["-" PACKAGE-VERSION] |
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> suffers a few problems: |
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I like the current one your proposal seems quite a problem for a large |
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deal of usecases. |
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> 1. It is not really human-friendly. |
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> People don't say things like: |
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> I need newer than monkey-1.2. |
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> They say instead: |
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> I need monkey, newer than version 1.2. |
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"I need monkey-1.2 or newer" sounds natural to me. |
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> 2. With long package names and versions, it becomes hard-to-read. |
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> Consider the following: |
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> >=dev-foo/bar-very-long-my-name-is-4-beta-17 |
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> Where does the version number start? And yes, this is a valid package |
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> name to our rules. |
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> 4. Adding, removing and changing versions is not friendly at all. |
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> Consider the following dep: |
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> >=dev-foo/bar-bas-bat-11.2.4_alpha |
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> Now, you want to bump the dep to 11.3. You need to find the version |
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> number, and modify it. Depending on the configuration, ^w is going to |
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> eat the whole package name or just a single component. |
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Use a better editor. |
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> Then, you want to remove the whole version. You need to first remove |
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> the version number, making sure it doesn't eat a bit of package name |
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> as well. Then, you have to go back to the beginning of the string, |
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> and remove the operator. |
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> PACKAGE-NAME [[*WSP] VERSION-OP [*WSP] PACKAGE-VERSION]] |
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whitespace as separator for atoms looks a huge can of worms waiting to |
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be opened. how you'd pass that to emerge? How you make a list of atoms? |
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Please try not fix/break what is not broken. |
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lu |