From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXzet-0000Ww-B1 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:27:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9CCQcmq013587; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:26:38 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9CCOfA8024339 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:24:42 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id x30so540800nfb for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:24:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:subject:from:to:in-reply-to:references:content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=PsnLxOU6lfWwkVvVpnecoD8PZQrlyDMYuC+LqqWizER2AVn2X0SXacVJx4JMO5BjD4/F8P7fUeMvjZJIGy8JBF3UovZCwLq7VGU5WLlrQ/ZsUUdnBlOl6hVqlmV3bUPDZeCsIZFe7EA+QkSpFFD54Z5v8dgHkfzoYSo70zMNIC0= Received: by 10.49.21.8 with SMTP id y8mr4996860nfi; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?213.234.126.133? ( [213.234.126.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id h1sm810971nfe.2006.10.12.05.24.38; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42? From: Natanael Copa To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <20061011221729.4293775e@snowdrop.home> References: <51c6d3c5867563dbcdcc62370def11d0@myrddraal.demon.co.uk> <452D2BC9.5060207@gentoo.org> <15FCAB01-0915-4FB7-BD31-189212346F96@gentoo.org> <20061011194442.4c0bd8d9@snowdrop.home> <1160595003.10524.21.camel@inertia.twi-31o2.org> <20061011204619.0c58fdf1@snowdrop.home> <20061011212633.30942d25@snowdrop.home> <20061011221729.4293775e@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:24:36 +0200 Message-Id: <1160655876.16962.22.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d6072dca-c8d8-4101-8012-6b6506fc613c X-Archives-Hash: c13b205edb604820baee01410aee70fb On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 22:17 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 22:08:31 +0100 "Stuart Herbert" > wrote: > | On 10/11/06, Ciaran McCreesh 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? -- Natanael Copa -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list