On Friday 26 August 2005 16:58, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 14:50:52 +0200 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > | ps. People please be aware that this is still alpha in the sense of > | not being complete. For better working it should probably support if > | statements properly, and at least do variable substitution. It would > | mean that the parser would have to retain a state etc. > > Isn't this pretty much a waste of time if it can't handle all the code > in versionator? We're trying to move people away from ugly unreliable > manual substitutions towards readable, maintainable code using the > eclass...
With lack of variable substitution support I mean that it just forwards the variable substitutions to the calling application (output). It should probably also be made more aware of the variables that are allways extended like USE and DEPEND. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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