On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:06:37PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote: > Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Feb 09 17:31:42 -0500 2009: > > > > for i in /tmp/*; do > > > > echo Found $$i in /tmp; > > > > done > > > > endef > > > > Errr... this sort of usage disturbs me. > > [Assumes you're not commenting specifically on the dumb example used to > show variable escaping and a general overview...]
i was commenting specifically, on going through /tmp/, yes. > If you want to say that version numbers shouldn't be in path names and > make that a CSW convention (maybe it already is?) that's fine. its a semi-convention. people are encouraged to remove numbers from documentation subdirs, for example. (/opt/csw/share/doc/progname, not progname-1.2.3) > . You'll note that rpm provides a built-in macro language that > is used for this type of task quite regularly. that's.... evil. _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
