Hi!
Simon Tournier <[email protected]> skribis:
>>From my point of view (and what I tried stopping in the middle :-)) is
> to report if the transformation makes sense or not. For instance,
You stated that multiple times and there’s general consensus that
reporting the issue would be great.
However, as I explained before, there’s no clear way to do that for two
reasons:
1. Transformations apply to bags, not packages, so we cannot tell
whether a transformation has an effect until after the transformed
package has been lowered. Even then, it’s tricky.
2. In this case, this has to do with the semantics of transformations
themselves: by definition, ‘with-source’ dismisses patches.
[...]
> Well, I am not convinced that enforce the ordering is a good thing
> because as Ludo said, some HPC user exploits this control of ordering to
> generate complex transformations.
My point is that there are folks who have been using package
transformation options for years; any claim has to be evaluated in that
light, and any change would have to be considered very carefully.
Thanks,
Ludo’.
