Re: [gentoo-dev] All Developers!

[Mikael Hallendal]

lör 2001-11-10 klockan 16.56 skrev Karl Trygve Kalleberg:
> On 10 Nov 2001 12:34:15 +0100
> Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > A while back drobbins mailed about the issue that A= shouldn't be set by
> > the ebuild-editor. It's set automatically by Portage. He also said that
> > it should be removed. I'm surprised to see that some developers still
> > updates ebuilds and leaves 'A=' there.
> >
> > Same thing about try->die. If you edit/update an ebuild, please fix this
> > kinds of issues before commiting it.
> >
> > I'm currently fixing lots of ebuilds but it's hard work.
>
> The ebuildchecker posted earlier will tell you which ebuilds are affected
> by tab bugs, A= settings and the use of try, among other things.
>
> I have been thinking of writing a cleanup script that fixes most of these
> things automatically. It would mean that we developers would only have to
> look over the ebuilds instead of actually doing the rewrites. However, it
> might turn out to be a complete mess, so unless we think this is a Big
> Issue, I'd rather spend my time elsewhere.

The A=-issue is pretty straight forward, just grep for A= (same for
try).

I think the time you have to spend on writing some script that would do
this automatic would be to great to be meaningful. Also, when going
through all ebuilds developers can fix other things, such as style-fixes
and such.

We should write some spec. on how ebuilds should look like (guidelines
for style) and then make a emacs and a vi mode for editing ebuilds that
controls the style.

Currently ebuilds looks very different from each other confusing people.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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Mikael Hallendal
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
CodeFactory AB, Stockholm, Sweden