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Roy Marples wrote: |
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> Well, let me be the first to stand for equal rights then! |
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Hm... |
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> I say that for the most part, there should be no technical reason why |
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> ebuilds cannot be in posix shell whilst being readable and maintainable. |
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Beside teaching us how to do that. |
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> If portage or another package manager wishes to uses bash to parse |
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> ebuilds and eclasses, more power to them! I won't stop that. I just want |
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> the ability for other shells to do the same. It isn't hard, and you |
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> don't need to be a rocket scientist. It's not an overnight change, but a |
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> gradual change. |
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I'm more radical, what if I want to have my package manager parse |
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ebuilds w/out needing outside shell but a custom tailed parser (because |
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of performance)? Nothing prevents to implement the parser from scratch |
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in both cases... |
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IFF your proposed changes lead to something that is simpler or as simple |
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to write, faster or as fast to parse, easier or as easy to |
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read/maintain; then you may have a solid stance. Otherwise it is a |
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pointless annoyance for everybody, you first, us second. |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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