[PATCH 2/5] Allow setup to parse more than 3 versions from the setup.ini file

[Christopher Faylor]

On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 03:23:31PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>On 24/04/2011 17:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 02:05:54PM +0100, Jon TURNEY wrote:
>>> This recognizes any "[version]" line as introducing the information for
>>> another version, which doesn't have one of the trust levels [curr], [prev]
>>> or [test], and so isn't automatically selected when setup is
>>>
>>> Since the value of <version> carries no meaning, it might make more sense
>>> to mandate the use of a specific string like "[also]" or "[other]", or
>>> perhaps "[prev-1]", "[prev-2]", etc.
>>>
>>> I have written a corresponding patch to genini
>>>
>>> Setup already does all the neccessary sorting in version order etc. to
>>> use these additional versions.
>>>
>>> 2011-04-24  Jon TURNEY  <jon.turney-GrJqePx9RPPAJUdA+FbntA@public.gmane.org>
>>>
>>> 	* PackageTrust.h (trusts): Add TRUST_OTHER.
>>> 	* inilex.ll: tokenize any other [version] as the T_OTHER token.
>>> 	* iniparse.yy: Add T_OTHER token and set package trust
>>> 	to TRUST_OTHER when it is used.
>> 
>> Sorry but what is this good for?  Who would use it?
>
>If you are asking why a package maintainer might want this, then for e.g. [1]
>
>[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2011-03/msg00049.html

Ok, there's one package maintainer who wants it.

Since this is, IMO, a rather large departure from past convention, it would
be nice to see if this is something that other people want.

This change will mean I'll need change to the program which generates
setup.ini so I'd like to make sure that this is going to be used.

cgf