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Re: A new method of storing ... (was: Re: [ITP] re2c)
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 08:19:07AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:18:40PM -0400, Daniel Reed wrote:
>> >On 2004-05-13T23:22+0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> >) Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> >) > Hallo,
>> >) >
>> >) > want to maintain re2c: http://re2c.org/
>> >) >
>> >) > # re2c setup.hint
>> >) > @ re2c
>> >) No need for the above 2 lines.
>> >
>> >Actually, starting sometime soon the "@ " line may indeed be needed.
>>
>> ACK! No, please. I've been actively advocating not to do this for some
>> time. I can't imagine why this would not be obvious from context. It is
>> always better to let the computer do the work for you and just dropping
>> a setup.hint in an appropriately named directory is guaranteed to be
>> less error prone than putting a name in a setup.hint file that is the
>> same name as a directory.
>>
>> I have actually been removing these redundant lines whenever I find them
>> in a setup.hint.
>
>Actually, I see this as a different point. IMO, Dan says that the '@ '
>line will be needed in the *inline* copy of setup.hint that's included
>in the ITP messages. The actual setup.hint (if there's a link to it)
>doesn't have to (and, I agree, should not) include it. Also, the '@ '
>line can be easily filtered out by the automatic submission program, so
>that the resulting setup.hint in the package directory won't have it.
Sorry, but I don't see that either. It's still error prone. If we are
automating things then there should be a pull-down or something which
allows you to select a package name from a list rather than invent one
by adding the name after a '@'.
cgf