On 5/18/06, Lucas C. Villa Real <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/18/06, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My concern is the maintenance overhead and things going out of sync.
> Having *Dependencies files spread around that are 80% similar would be
> Not Good. If we're extending the *Dependencies syntax anyway, then why
> not have something like this:
>
> Glibc [2.2, )
> GTK+ [2.0, )
> LibID3Tag [0.15, ) [not arm]
> Xorg [6.0, )
> PPC-Specific-Stuff [1.0, ) [ppc]
Ok, since the beast is going to be maintained by hand I see no problems on that.
> (Didn't think much about the syntax, just lifted it from
> http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/htop )
>
> BTW, I'm having second thoughts about the "math-interval" way of
> specifying ranges. Maybe the plain old ">=" would be more natural
> looking, and some books write half-open intervals as "[2,2, [" anyway.
">=" looks fine too. Just a matter of asking contributers and other
developers about their preferred method, I think.
> I noticed some unnecessary copy-and-paste in the $ARCH/Recipe files; I
> don't remember if we already talked about this. Avoid moving non-i686
> specific stuff into i686/Recipe just to factor out options between
> architectures.
> (...)
> Good:
>
> Recipe:
> configure_options=(
> --flag1
> --flag2
> --flag3
> )
> arm/Recipe:
> configure_options=(
> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
> --flag4-for-arm
> )
> sh/Recipe:
> configure_options=(
> --tiny
> )
Ouch, much better. I recall having tried to use
[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the past but I probably did some typo, as
it didn't work at the time. Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give a
review on the cross recipes here.
Arrays in sh have an odd notation. Should provide helper functions.
add_first, add_last, add_after, add_before, remove should do it.
--
Carlo J. Calica
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