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Re: A new method of storing ... (was: Re: [ITP] re2c)
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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
A pull-down where? We were (or, at least, I was) talking about
information automatically extracted from mail messages sent to the
cygwin-apps list. The easiest way to find the exact package name in those
messages is as part of the '@ ' line of the inlined setup.hint. In a web
form, the name for a new package being ITP'd will still need to be entered
as text, rather than selected from a pull-down, but that's a separate
issue. Sorry I wasn't clearer.
Igor
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