On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Darian Lanx wrote: > Peter O'Gorman wrote: > >Daniel Macks wrote: > >> > > > > > Yes, I vote for a solution in Perl as well, yet I still think that the > syntax is simply bad. Bad as in too complicated for the common or novice > packager to understand. Maybe we could find a syntax that is based upon > a flow thought and not based upon an expression how the underlying > parser can best handle it. > > What does the syntax actually which to express? > > Basicaly what Benjamin stated, right ? > > If some condition is met use dependancy foo if not then use dependency blah. > > So why not do this in the abbreviated if syntax we all know from C or > perl which can easily be explained.
It we want to go programming-language-style: Depends: %type_perl_version == 5.8.1 && thing-pm Depends: %type_nox == -nox || x11 It we want to be a bit more linguistic/thought-process oriented: Depends: %type_perl_version = 5.8.1 ? thing-pm dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
