On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Steve Long
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>> If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after
>> src_unpack, to avoid having lots of things of the form:
>>
>> src_unpack() {
>> default
>> patch blah
>> eautoreconf
>> }
>>
> Besides saving one line of typing, what is the benefit of adding this new
> phase?
Uh, count again. It's not just one line of typing saved.
The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid
all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about
which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
