On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:09:28 +0100 Simon Stelling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 11:35:34 -0600 Lance Albertson | > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | QA shouldn't have to depend on the tools you use. | > | > Sure. However, the tree is far too large to check manually for many | > things. If we were to do the Sekrit Tool's IUSE check manually, for | > example, we'd still be in app-something, and would have missed many | > of the screwups. | | Then fix the tool. I find it somehow ironic that a member of the QA | team is trying to force a 'work-around' just to avoid fixing the | source of the problem.
How? Writing a full bash parser is extremely difficult and would be a complete waste of time. It's far saner to assume sane syntax, and just bail out when crazy stuff is encountered. Sane syntax is not a work around -- it's a basic thing that should be expected from any source file that has to be worked on by more than one person, or even one person over a long period of time. Syntax is already, at least to a certain extent, mandated by policy. The question at hand is whether violations of this policy should be effectively ignored, or whether they should be treated as potentially severe simply because they mask other problems. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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