On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:40:37PM +1300, Nigel Stanger wrote: > On 12/2/2004 10:22 AM, Daniel Macks at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: > > > For the Depends logic, I think the bleh-or-blah would not be a very > > common occurance. More often (at least in the situations I can think > > of) is "bleh only if [something]" *or* "blah only if not [something]". > > Having to conjure up a "nox" package just to make the logic work > > bothers me. But if people think if/then/else is the way to go... >
> If you don't put it in, you can guarantee someone will promptly come > up with a package that requires it :) > > Depends: perl = 5.8.1 ? bleh.pm : blah.pm > Depends: X = yes ? x11 : > or: > Depends: X = yes ? x11 : %null > > where "%null" (or "%none" or whatever) is a special token to indicate "no > package". I put a % on the front to avoid the problem of a package that's > actually named "null". The much more common case that I can think of doesn't use else, and those two solutions still look kinda convoluted. while if/then/else could be useful in some cases, I'd rather not clutter up the syntax for these less common situations. If we allow comparison operators other than just =, we don't even need else at all: Depends: (perl == 5.8.1) bleh.pm, (perl != 5.8.1) blah.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
