On Saturday 03 November 2007, Alec Warner wrote:
> Since portage currently
> uses bash and to my knowledge is not moving to POSIX shell in the near
> term, I think bash is appropriate in the implementation. AKA,
> everyone stop arguing about which is better.
there it is, thanks
-mike
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From: Alec Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Nov 2, 2007 10:25 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
On 11/2/07, Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:17 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Friday 02 November 2007 17:52:13 Roy Marples wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > > Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when
> > > it's supposed to be about the
On Friday 02 November 2007 17:52:13 Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when
> > it's supposed to be about the API for ebuilds.
>
> I dislike the gratuitous use of bash for no good
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:30 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> Please explain why you hijack this thread to discuss POSIX vs. bash when it's
> supposed to be about the API for ebuilds.
I dislike the gratuitous use of bash for no good reason - and in the
code he gave there is no good reason for us
On Friday 02 November 2007 17:10:29 Roy Marples wrote:
> > and the answer is still the same. POSIX conversions are irrelevant until
> > you can propose solutions for the things bash can do but POSIX cannot.
> > you can only provide workarounds or hacks, so any further attempt on the
> > topic is
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:58 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> and the answer is still the same. POSIX conversions are irrelevant until you
> can propose solutions for the things bash can do but POSIX cannot. you can
> only provide workarounds or hacks, so any further attempt on the topic is
> hal
On Friday 02 November 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > wrong. the point of the discussion on the gentoo dev mailing list is to
> > go over the exported API for *ebuilds*, not for the implementation. the
> > implementation is already baked and
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> wrong. the point of the discussion on the gentoo dev mailing list is to go
> over the exported API for *ebuilds*, not for the implementation. the
> implementation is already baked and really, Marijn shouldnt have sent it to
> the gento
On Friday 02 November 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Friday 02 November 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:44 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > > > [[ ${flag} = !* ]] && { success=1 ; flag=${flag:1} }
> > >
> >
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:59 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Friday 02 November 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:44 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > > [[ ${flag} = !* ]] && { success=1 ; flag=${flag:1} }
> >
> > Could be written as
>
> irrelevant, thanks
My mail was
On Friday 02 November 2007, Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:44 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> > [[ ${flag} = !* ]] && { success=1 ; flag=${flag:1} }
>
> Could be written as
irrelevant, thanks
-mike
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Daniel Drake wrote:
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>> use_mime() {
>> local WORD=$(ifv "$2" "$2" "$1")
>>
>> ifuse "$1" "${WORD};"
>> }
>>
>> for generating a string of ';'-separated mime-types based on use flags.
>>
>> The explanation of thi
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 15:27 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>
> ifz() {
> [[ $1 = 0 ]] && echo $2 || echo $3
> }
And that could be written as
[ "$1" = 0 ] && echo "$2" || echo "$3"
Thanks
Roy
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Daniel Drake wrote:
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>> use_mime() {
>> local WORD=$(ifv "$2" "$2" "$1")
>>
>> ifuse "$1" "${WORD};"
>> }
>>
>> for generating a string of ';'-separated mime-types based on use flags.
>>
>> The explanation of thi
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Roy Marples wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:44 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
>> [[ ${flag} = !* ]] && { success=1 ; flag=${flag:1} }
>
> Could be written as
> [ "${flag#!}" != "${flag}" ] && { success=1; flag=${flag#!}; }
>
>> string=$( ((
Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
Hi list,
the current interface to use flags, useq, usev, use_with, use_enable, as
defined in /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh lacks generality. The common thing
is testing a use flag and possibly echoing a string, but there is no function
that implements this common
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 14:44 +0100, Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
> [[ ${flag} = !* ]] && { success=1 ; flag=${flag:1} }
Could be written as
[ "${flag#!}" != "${flag}" ] && { success=1; flag=${flag#!}; }
> string=$( (( ${success} == 0 )) && echo ${string_success} || echo
> ${string_failure} )
>
Hi list,
the current interface to use flags, useq, usev, use_with, use_enable, as
defined in /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh lacks generality. The common thing
is testing a use flag and possibly echoing a string, but there is no function
that implements this common behaviour.
I propose that we add
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