On Tue, 13 Jun 2017, Bowie Bailey wrote:

On 6/13/2017 3:53 PM, Dianne Skoll wrote:

 2) If a rule has an expiry set and then is used to build a meta rule,
 then the expiry is ignored and the parser issues a warning or even a
 fatal error.  I'm partial to the fatal error because warnings are usually
 ignored. :)

Or require that the meta rule must have the same (or possibly earlier) expiration date as the dependency. This would allow more complex temporary rules to be created.

That sounds like a reasonable approach to me.


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