On 23.03.2013 00:13, Allan McRae wrote: > On 23/03/13 04:34, Florian Pritz wrote: >> [....] > > Looks fine. But we either need to get makepkg completely split up, or > this needs to be bash based.
The perl script is just a prototype, I'm sure it isn't too complicated to rewrite in awk (for someone with awk experience). >> Another note: >> Lukas suggested on IRC that we could also just use an existing macro >> tool such as m4. I didn't think about it before, but I feel like an >> inline solution that just updates a simple file is better suited for >> PKGBUILDS since they tend to be rather small and can be viewed more >> easily if everything is inlined. Any other opinions here? >> > > Can m4 update? It is also a pain with escaping from memory. Didn't manage to google anything about m4 being able to update, so I guess it can't. I remember having read something about the escaping pain, but I don't know any more. Still waiting for Dave's reply on all those questions here
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