Aaron Griffin wrote:
> Guys.... please. The original request was for ideas, not comments.
>
> Perhaps this is why it was never brought up in public? Because the
> signal-to-noise would be too low?
>
>
Apologies, I was also supposed to comment on the previous suggestion by
Essien Ita Essien that I really liked, but I obviously get distracted
and missed it out... I'll included them now.
Essien Ita Essien wrote:
[snip]
For a first draft, I was really impressed with this.
> files("docs") {
> #will build foo-docs-ver-rel.pkg.tar.gz
>
> }
>
The ability to select whole directories or use wildcards here would be
essential although really shouldn't complicate the implementation much.
The best point about this idea is that it appears to be backwards
compatible with current package builds.
One idea I had while looking at ettercap and its multiple interfaces was
to see if we could save some build time by noting that most of the
package would be the same between the two parts. E.g. in ettercap with
and without gtk interface, all the library files are still the same (I
think...). I couldn't see a way to do this without either hacking the
makefile or getting the functionality included upstream but someone else
might see something I missed.
Allan
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