Ciaran McCreesh ha scritto: > On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:03:27 +0000 > Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Using your analogy you should then recognise that there is a strong >> dislike for pink and should seek a new colour that allows the building >> of said extensions. >> > > And what colour would that be? We've already ruled out purple, brown > and yellow, and no-one has yet found any other colour of paint. > sorry if this has already suggested. my idea is to use shebang; the advantage in using shebang is that file doesn't need to be sourced or parsed by complex algorithms in order to extract the necessary information.
an example: #!/usr/bin/ebuild eapi=1 # Copyright 1999-2007 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ DESCRIPTION="My EAPI-1 ebuild" HOMEPAGE="http://www.gentoo.org/"; SRC_URI="" LICENSE="GPL-2" ... shebang's synopsis would look something like: #!<interpreter> [key=value] [key=value] [...] pros: 1) it's standard. shell scripts use it. why ebuilds shouldn't? 2) it's easy to parse: eval `head -n1 $ebuild | cut -d\ -f2-`; echo $eapi 3) in the future, for any other situation analogous to this, you could add another key=value to the ebuild's shebang 4) easily checked by repoman cons: ? just my two Eurocents. since now you can bite me ;-) -- #include <stdio.h> main(){printf("%x",4275974592);} -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
