On Friday 01 July 2005 23:00, Dan Armak wrote: > On Friday 01 July 2005 23:19, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > > On Friday 01 July 2005 17:14, Jonathan Smith wrote: > > > Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote: > > > > Btw, what's wrong with the `DEPEND="$(your_function)" || die` > > > > > > > > i've proposed? Using a return code seems to be the simplest way > > > > to signal a failure, no? > > > > > > calling a function in a global scope is a bad idea. it leads to lots of > > > unneccessary (and timely) computations > > > > It also makes any attempts to parse ebuilds without using bash (our > > current strategy) a lot harder (actually causing bash reimplementation) > > You mean you're actually doing that for portage-cvs? I didn't know that. > Does 'our current strategy' refer to using bash or to not using it?
I'm not working on portage. I don't know what people do, but parsing ebuilds is certainly easier orders of magnitude faster than bash parsing them (I have prove of concept code). Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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