On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Parrot
<[email protected]> wrote:
> #1290: Produce Single PBC from Multiple PIR Files with -o
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>  Reporter:  chromatic  |       Owner:
>     Type:  feature    |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:
> Component:  core       |     Version:
>  Severity:  medium     |    Keywords:
>     Lang:             |       Patch:
>  Platform:             |
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>
> Comment(by whiteknight):
>
>  We would need to rework the command-line parsing logic to handle multiple
>  input files if the -o option were used (I suspect listing multiple input
>  files without -o should be treated as an error because it's nonsensical).
>  We would need to compile each, merge each one into a single master
>  packfile, and then output that packfile to file. With the new embedding
>  API and some of the IMCC/Packfile changes recently, this actually should
>  not be too hard of a project.
>
>  The question is whether we want to do this with pbc_merge available. And,
>  if so, do we want to keep pbc_merge or deprecate that?

FYI, pbc_merge merges already-generated PBC files, which is different
than the request on this ticket (to generate a single PBC from
multiple PIR files.)

As long as the functionality is still there, I don't care which way I
have to invoke it (barring normal deprecation issues.)

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda
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