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On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:01:54 +0100 |
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Maciej Mrozowski <reavertm@××××××.fm> wrote: |
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> What's the benefit of changing syntax so dramatically? (apart from |
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> the sake of changing it to someone's liking) and what's so wrong with |
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> zillion of separate dependency variables? Are they too easy to read, |
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> implement and understand? As everyone knows, to avoid copy&paste one |
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> can easily use such scheme: |
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A zillion is a lot, and the whole cache and metadata mechanism can't |
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deal with it. Start multiplying this lot together: |
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* on / vs under ROOT/ |
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* native vs target |
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* required for build, run time, post, install, test or use |
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* however many userland ABIs there are |
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* however many Python ABIs there are |
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It quickly becomes clear that various things that are wanted in the |
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future can't be done by having lots of variables. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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