On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 03:59:18PM +0200, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote: > Hello, > > On Friday 08 July 2005 15:16, Sébastien Dugué wrote: > > Hi, > > > > extending on the grouping feature, would it be possible to > > have recursive series files? > > > > What I mean is if an entry in a series file references a directory > > (instead of a patch file), then get the series file in that directory > > and apply it (eventally recursing into sub directories). > > > > This would allow grouping of patches without the need to reference > > every patch file on the toplevel series file, but only the directories > > into which reside those groups patches. > > I'm not sure this feature is generally useful. It would slow down quilt as a > whole. Another issue is how to walk the tree (moving forward and backward), > and into which series file to insert new patches. Do you have a case where > creating one single series file really causes a significant amount of work? > Patches usually don't combine in arbitrary orders anyway, so the different > parts of the series file need to be put together very carefully anyway...
We've been talking about doing something like this for a different reason. Rather than looking for $SERIES in a subdir, we've been talking about some sort of include mechanism so that we can have something like: series.released # Released product. series.next # Development of next product, 'include's series.released series.dev_board_a # Development on board a, 'include's series.next And so on. -- Tom _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
