On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:38:34PM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > > >So you would migrate from .info files to .vinfo files, over time? That's > >quite a hack! > > > >Seriously, if this were going to be done, then goal #1 of the hack would be > >to set up a new, extensible, % system so that this would never need to be > >done > >again in the future. I don't know what form that would take, but we would > >certainly need it. > > > >Also, I would vote for .finkinfo as the new extension. > > And, if we have to do this, we need to make sure that anything else we > want to do that changes the info file format happens at the same time, > we won't have many other opportunities to do so.
That's why I also mentioned adding some sort of magic number and have the indexer ignore any file that is newer than the level it supports. Maybe a "MinFinkVersion: " field as the first line? dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
