On 5/5/21 5:41 PM, Chuck Wolber wrote:
I was pondering putting some work in to a fairly large patch set aimed
at making recipes easier to grep through, and wanted to get some
feedback before I put time and effort into it.
I have often found that the following pattern cleanly describes the
"what" and the "why" when grep'ing through recipes to search for things:
FOO += "item1"
FOO += "item2"
Whereas this pattern gives us the "what", but not the "why":
FOO = "item1 \
item2 \
"
After discussing this with Richard Purdie on IRC, I also understand that
the latter pattern benefits some forms of build output. In addition, for
SRC_URI, the "why" is normally fairly obvious from context clues.
So, is there any interest in accepting a patch set of that nature for
Yocto and OE repositories? If so, what variables and situations should
be considered "off limits" to a change like that?
I think it is a good idea, however, to make it persistent it would be
nice to have a linter, which can do such checks and perhaps we can
enable this in autobuilders so we can keep such cleansups maintained
..Ch:W..
--
*"Perfection must be reached by degrees; she requires the slow hand of
time." - Voltaire*
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