Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 19:35 Sun 08 Mar     , Tiziano Müller wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 08.03.2009, 11:24 -0700 schrieb Donnie Berkholz:
> > On 10:01 Sun 08 Mar     , Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > On 16:48 Sun 08 Mar     , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 8 Mar 2009 09:42:29 -0700
> > > > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
> > > > > - I understand the reasoning for the SRC_CONFIGURE_WITH blah stuff. I
> > > > > strongly oppose this implementation because it makes ebuilds less
> > > > > like bash scripts that are easy to understand. Instead I suggest
> > > > > extending use_with() and use_enable() to accept multiple sets of
> > > > > arguments (alternately, making custom, similar functions that will
> > > > > take multiple args).
> > > >
> > > > How would that work? I can't see an obvious way of doing it that isn't
> > > > more or less as verbose as just using multiple calls.
> > >
> > > It would just eliminate all but one call to use_with(). Depending on how
> > > many you've got, this can shorten things up a fair bit. Here's an
> > > example:
> > >
> > > 	econf \
> > > 		$(use_with 'x X' 'foo libfoo' 'bar' 'python pygtk')
> > > 	econf \
> > > 		$(use_with x X) \
> > > 		$(use_with foo libfoo) \
> > > 		$(use_with bar) \
> > > 		$(use_with python pygtk)
> >
> > And the straightforward evolution of this would be additional with() and
> > enable() functions for mandatory support. I still find this more
> > intuitive than the set of variables.
> >
> > econf \
> > 	$(use_with 'x X' 'foo libfoo' 'bar' 'python pygtk') \
> > 	$(with foo bar blah baz) \
> > 	$(enable bam paw tick)
> >
>
> Which could already be written as ...
>    econf --with-{foo,bar}
> using bash :-)
>
> (or did I miss the point?)

Consistency, and that gets pretty ugly after a few when you also want to 
pass arguments to them.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com