Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

[Max Horn]

At 9:08 Uhr -0800 16.02.2003, Ben Hines wrote:

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 08:44  AM, Max Horn wrote:

At 8:09 Uhr -0500 16.02.2003, David R. Morrison wrote:

I think it would be useful to have a configuration option governing the
index behavior.  Sometimes, I am doing a lot of editing of info files,
and then I might want to turn the current indexing behavior on (instead of
always having to type "fink index foo.info").  Other times, I am mainly
compiling existing stuff and I might want to turn it off.

Note that you can always enforce a full reindexing by "fink index". I don't think that enabling an auto-reindex option, then run fink, then disable it again, is easier, rather it seems to be way more complicated :-)

How is that more complicated? I wouldn't "disable it again", rather till much later.

Your method (which might be useful sometimes, but not always)

4 info file edits:

1 edit info file
2 fink index info file
3 fink build info file
4 edit info file
5 fink index info file
6 fink build info file
7edit info file
8 fink index info file
9 fink build info file
10 edit info file
11 fink index info file
12 fink build info file


Smarter, convenient, simpler autoindex method:

1 turn on autoreindex
2 edit info file
3 fink build info file
4 edit info file
5 fink rebuild info file
6 edit info file
7 fink rebuild info file
8 edit info file
9 fink rebuild info file
10 turn off autoreindex

#2 is better IMO. I hated having to reindex by hand, it sucked. Alot.

See, for me, it sucks to wait 40-150 seconds each time I change a file for the index to be rebuild. But I already said that I don't mind adding an option to re-enable the current behaviour of auto-reindexing. I didn't disagree with that suggestion in my email, I just disagree with the reasoning you gave (and I still don't <shrug>. It's a matter of personal preference... hence a fink.conf setting is the way to go I guess).



Max


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