Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/lib/ rpmrc.c

2009-03-17 Thread Jeff Johnson
On Mar 17, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Per Øyvind Karlsen wrote: Yeah. you're right, I've had that thought myself more than once already, but my initial focus has been to just do something simple, fairly minimal and working before making it into something nice and sane in addition. Using libcpui

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/lib/ rpmrc.c

2009-03-17 Thread Per Øyvind Karlsen
2009/3/17 Jeff Johnson > The DOOM (from aliasing) starts right here ... > > Your desire & approach to "compatibility" is sound, what's wrong is > compiling the > bleeping strings into RPM. That's basically what rpmrc files achieved, > having > strings & number identifiers out of RPM code. > > Not

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES rpm/misc/ Makefile.am librpmmisc.c mkdtemp.c t...

2009-03-17 Thread devzero2000
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: > Oooh, thank you! I keep meaning to do this ... > > BTW, perhaps its time to switch RPM to using Gnulib > for portability issues as suggested (for popt) here: > >http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/3161.html > > (aside) > I plain and s

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/lib/ rpmrc.c

2009-03-17 Thread Jeff Johnson
The DOOM (from aliasing) starts right here ... Your desire & approach to "compatibility" is sound, what's wrong is compiling the bleeping strings into RPM. That's basically what rpmrc files achieved, having strings & number identifiers out of RPM code. Note that rpmrc was an exceedingly gro

Re: [CVS] RPM: rpm/ CHANGES rpm/misc/ Makefile.am librpmmisc.c mkdtemp.c t...

2009-03-17 Thread Jeff Johnson
Oooh, thank you! I keep meaning to do this ... BTW, perhaps its time to switch RPM to using Gnulib for portability issues as suggested (for popt) here: http://rpm5.org/community/rpm-devel/3161.html (aside) I plain and simply __CANNOT__ justify Gnulib for popt for the two dinky portabili