On 11/12/2024 12:58 PM, Mark Hatle wrote: > > > On 11/6/24 2:12 PM, Mark Asselstine via lists.openembedded.org wrote: >> >> >> On 11/6/2024 9:18 AM, Richard Purdie via lists.openembedded.org wrote: >>> I think we've had this idea around on occasions before but I'm going to >>> write it down as an official proposal. In the interests of small >>> contained but useful tweaks, I'd like to suggest we add an >>> "include_all" directive. >>> >>> Example usage would be: >>> >>> include_all conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc >>> >>> which would iterate BBPATH and include (in order) each maintainers.inc >>> file it finds. >>> >>> This would be used for things like the maintainers inc files so that >>> other layers could add values to some central list. The clang inc files >>> were another possible use case or the static libs or other inc files we >>> have in core. >>> >>> It would all a few more files bitbake would have to check for the >>> presence of to check cache validation but that is already a complex >>> problem and we have ways to handle this. >>> >>> I did wonder about "require_all" but I doubt we need the difference in >>> semantics for this form of operation and include is good enough. >>> >>> Thoughts? >> >> Would it make sense to continue to use 'include' and make use of some >> form of globbing on the path to make it convey that there are going to >> be additional matches? > > I prefer include_all because it's explicit in what it's going to do. > While an include <path>/<glob> as a reader you need to understand this > does, and I don't think its obvious at all.
That is sort of like saying "ls /etc/*" is harder to understand than "ls_all /etc/". I find it harder to recall an expanding list of directives than a pattern used throughout Linux. At any rate, point taken, I hear you. MarkA > >> MarkA >> >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Richard >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >>
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