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On Friday 26 August 2005 16:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:50:52 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | ps. People please be aware that this is still alpha in the sense of |
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> | not being complete. For better working it should probably support if |
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> | statements properly, and at least do variable substitution. It would |
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> | mean that the parser would have to retain a state etc. |
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> Isn't this pretty much a waste of time if it can't handle all the code |
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> in versionator? We're trying to move people away from ugly unreliable |
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> manual substitutions towards readable, maintainable code using the |
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> eclass... |
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With lack of variable substitution support I mean that it just forwards |
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the variable substitutions to the calling application (output). It should |
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probably also be made more aware of the variables that are allways |
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extended like USE and DEPEND. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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