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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: toolchain@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 22:51:18
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.63.0508092244480.17940@terciopelo.krait.us
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-config 2.0 development by Jeremy Huddleston
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4 On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
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6 SNIP
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8
9 > That's a matter of opinion. I see it as a way to abstract away the
10 > configuration and utilize an existing library to handle the parsing. If
11 > we do want to eliminate outside dependencies (which I think is an
12 > extremely valid point and concern), then we could internally implement a
13 > different configuration format that is easier to parse. I'd probably go
14 > for something similar to the samba/gdm config files if we were to go
15 > down this road:
16 >
17 > selection.conf:
18 > [global]
19 > default_chost = i686-pc-linux-gnu
20 >
21 >
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24 > So what do people think of these two options?
25 >
26 > --Jeremy
27 >
28
29 I prefer the samba/gdm style. I can more quickly see what is going on by
30 looking at it.
31
32 Regards,
33 Ferris
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36 Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
37 Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc, devrel)
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