On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Hisham <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Alexander Gladysh <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I believe we added this feature (and I did so somewhat reluctantly)
> because some Kepler module needed to run some final setup task... but
> right now I can't find any rockspec using it in my cache of the
> repositories. Fabio, do you remember why we added this and if it is
> still needed?

It was used by the Kepler package to do some initial setup, back in
LR1, probably the change from LR1 to LR2 broke the original semantics.
Currently none of my rocks use it, but hooks in general are a good
idea, I think. :-)

> I'm asking this because moving it around like Alexander requested
> would change its overall semantics and I'm afraid it would break
> something.

Actually the original semantics relied on post_install being run after
everything was in its final place. :-)

> -- Hisham
>

--
Fabio Mascarenhas

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