On Sat, 22 Sep 2012 18:13:48 +0200 Luca Barbato <lu_z...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 09/22/2012 09:55 AM, Michał Górny wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The current dependency syntax: > > > > [VERSION-OP] PACKAGE-NAME ["-" PACKAGE-VERSION] > > > > suffers a few problems: > > I like the current one your proposal seems quite a problem for a large > deal of usecases. > > > 1. It is not really human-friendly. > > > > People don't say things like: > > > > I need newer than monkey-1.2. > > > > They say instead: > > > > I need monkey, newer than version 1.2. > > "I need monkey-1.2 or newer" sounds natural to me. 'monkey-1.2' or 'monkey version 1.2'? The former being a package name. > > 4. Adding, removing and changing versions is not friendly at all. > > > > Consider the following dep: > > > > >=dev-foo/bar-bas-bat-11.2.4_alpha > > > > Now, you want to bump the dep to 11.3. You need to find the version > > number, and modify it. Depending on the configuration, ^w is going > > to eat the whole package name or just a single component. > > Use a better editor. Which one has automagic atom stripping? > > Then, you want to remove the whole version. You need to first remove > > the version number, making sure it doesn't eat a bit of package name > > as well. Then, you have to go back to the beginning of the string, > > and remove the operator. > > > PACKAGE-NAME [[*WSP] VERSION-OP [*WSP] PACKAGE-VERSION]] > > whitespace as separator for atoms looks a huge can of worms waiting to > be opened. how you'd pass that to emerge? How you make a list of > atoms? emerge 'foo >= 1.1' 'bar < 1.0'? emerge foo '>=' 1.1 bar '<' 1.0? And what do you mean by 'a list of atoms'? I don't see a single problem parsing this syntax. It's a very simple stream of tokens. > Please try not fix/break what is not broken. So we're now switching Gentoo to EOL and just fixing bugs? -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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