On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:01:54 +0100 Maciej Mrozowski <reave...@poczta.fm> wrote: > What's the benefit of changing syntax so dramatically? (apart from > the sake of changing it to someone's liking) and what's so wrong with > zillion of separate dependency variables? Are they too easy to read, > implement and understand? As everyone knows, to avoid copy&paste one > can easily use such scheme:
A zillion is a lot, and the whole cache and metadata mechanism can't deal with it. Start multiplying this lot together: * on / vs under ROOT/ * native vs target * required for build, run time, post, install, test or use * however many userland ABIs there are * however many Python ABIs there are It quickly becomes clear that various things that are wanted in the future can't be done by having lots of variables. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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