Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Darian Lanx wrote: Peter O'Gorman wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: Yes, I vote for a solution in Perl as well, yet I still think that the syntax is simply bad. Bad as in too complicated for the common or novice packager to understand. Maybe we could

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Daniel Macks wrote: It we want to go programming-language-style: Depends: %type_perl_version == 5.8.1 thing-pm Depends: %type_nox == -nox || x11 It we want to be a bit more linguistic/thought-process oriented: Depends: %type_perl_version = 5.8.1 ? thing-pm Actually, I think the part that

[Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-10 Thread Darian Lanx
Daniel Macks wrote: snip all Thoughts? To put it short and please do not see this as completely useless critique. This is too complicated for my taste. Creating packages for Fink has to be as simple as humanly possible, because it enables us to harvest more willing package maintainers when

[Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-10 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:45:59PM +0100, Darian Lanx wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: snip all Thoughts? To put it short and please do not see this as completely useless critique. This is too complicated for my taste. [...] But you can hardly expect the majority of the Mac community that