Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42?

[Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 22:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:08:31 +0100 "Stuart Herbert"
> <stuart.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
> | On 10/11/06, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@ciaranm.org> wrote:
> | > Spaces in dep atoms would be highly evil, since it'd mean they were
> | > no longer simply space delimited. Commas [foo,-bar,baz] would be
> | > fine...
> | 
> | Write a better parser then :P
> 
> Not an issue for me. It's an issue for random people writing scripts,
> for people using command line things and for people who don't want to
> use a full parser framework for some quick hack. There's no need to
> make things harder for random developers here.

I tried to write some scripts some time ago and it was completely
horrible. I wish more people would have been thinking like Ciaran
earlier.

btw.. I keep hearing about this paladius. Is it more script-friendly
than emerge?

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Natanael Copa

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