Hello, fellow developers,
The current virtualx.eclass API is a bit insane. It seems a bit like
stacking of a few next APIs, mostly designed to quickly run 'make
check', then extended to general functions.
For example running a function 'run_tests' with parameter '--foo' would
look like:
VIRTUALX_COMMAND=run_tests virtualmake --foo
which is really awful, considering that '--foo' is a parameter to
'run_tests' and not virtualmake.
My patches introduce a single wrapper with argv-as-parameter syntax.
That is, the fore-mentioned example would look like:
virtualx run_tests --foo
Depending on the maintainer decisions and your feedback, I believe that
even all the X* short-hand functions could be deprecated. They are a bit
shorter:
Xemake check
vs:
virtualx emake check
but I don't think that's much of a difference.
What are your thoughts?
