Re: Reusing code for a build-phase?

2023-08-06 Thread Csepp
Hartmut Goebel writes: > Hi, > > I'm currently packaging vagrant and some plugins. For all plugins an > additional phase is required, generating a json file, see below. Since this > is quite > some code, I'd like to put it into some definition or some wrapper. Since it > uses (this-package-v

Re: Reusing code for a build-phase?

2023-08-06 Thread Hartmut Goebel
Am 06.08.23 um 14:49 schrieb Csepp: Maybe you could create a build system that inherits from the one these packages use, but adds the extra phase. I was thinking about this, too. But this seems to be too much, as there are not hundreds of Vagrant plugins. Also a build-system requires document

Re: Reusing code for a build-phase?

2023-08-06 Thread Bruno Victal
Hi Hartmut, On 2023-08-05 09:25, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > Hi, > > I'm currently packaging vagrant and some plugins. For all plugins an > additional phase is required, generating a json file, see below. Since this > is quite some code, I'd like to put it into some definition or some wrapper. > S

Re: The package/inherit trap

2023-08-06 Thread Mark H Weaver
Simon Tournier writes: > Hi Tobias, > > On Tue, 07 Mar 2023 at 22:11, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice wrote: > >> However, merely documenting something is not enough when we have the >> chance to fix misleading naming, as we do here. It would be nice to >> have, but orthogonal. > > I would not say it is

Re: The package/inherit trap (was: gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.)

2023-08-06 Thread (
Tobias Geerinckx-Rice writes: > But I'll gladly judge other bikesheds if they lead to a less misleading name. How about 'package/variant' or 'package/variant-of'? -- (

Re: The package/inherit trap (was: gnu: stellarium: Enable ShowMySky.)

2023-08-06 Thread Attila Lendvai
> How about 'package/variant' or 'package/variant-of'? +1 for trying to capture the intention in the name, instead of the means of implementation. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it h