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On Sunday 07 December 2003 10:11, Kapil Thangavelu wrote: |
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> are we at the stage yet, where some structured metadata representation |
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> outside of the ebuild will be used ? |
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> incidentally the mailing list manager isn't honoring requests for |
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> archives/indexes... so, apologies in advance if this has already been |
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> discussed/decided. |
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It is more something like: |
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In the new format bash syntax will be banned from anything but the |
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unpack, ?configure?, compile, and install parts (Possibly post_/pre_ too) so |
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that we can use a simple egrep or other parse statements to extract all the |
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metadata from the file. |
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This is not about splitting up the file. It is about not needing bash to get |
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all the dependencies out of the file. That would be a major improvement. Also |
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in the area of extending the syntax in unforeseen ways in new versions. |
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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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