On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:00:50AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 06:31 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> > It might be nicer, but could get messy when you consider all the corner
> > cases.
> >
> > True, and the mess can be contained in a macro. Reusing the design for
> > ChangeLog is worth a shot.
> > Not to mention the script brings a mess of it's own in the build. It
> > introduces multiple points of failure.
> > Finding a home for the mess is not obvious.
> 
> But the reason we put the ChangeLog mess in a macro is because it
> would be used across all the modules. If it's only being used here,
> then you might as well put it in the Makefile where it can be clean
> instead of a shell variable that's substituted. Unless we think this
> is going to be used in a lot places.

I don't see why not.  People are going to copy it and/or patch it in
anyway, and as with ChangeLog, it'll just get out of hand and we'll wish
we'd have used a macro in the first place.

Cheers,
Daniel

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