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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:02:21
Message-Id: 20050826155813.786853f5@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support by Paul de Vrieze
1 On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:50:52 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 | ps. People please be aware that this is still alpha in the sense of
4 | not being complete. For better working it should probably support if
5 | statements properly, and at least do variable substitution. It would
6 | mean that the parser would have to retain a state etc.
7
8 Isn't this pretty much a waste of time if it can't handle all the code
9 in versionator? We're trying to move people away from ugly unreliable
10 manual substitutions towards readable, maintainable code using the
11 eclass...
12
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14 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
15 Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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