[gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking

[gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking

[Kurt V. Hindenburg]

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I'm hacking portage.py to handle multiple DISTDIRS.  Mainly this is in 
the 'fetch' routine; which happens to be over 200 lines.  I notice 
this thoughout portage.py.  This is yucky!!
Somewhere over the years, I heard routines shouldn't be longer than a 
screen page.  Regardless, 100-200+ lines per routine is ridiculous.  
Sigh...it makes hacking so much more irrating... ;-((

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RE: [gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking

[Riyad Kalla]

It'll put hair on your chest!

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I'm hacking portage.py to handle multiple DISTDIRS.  Mainly this is in 
the 'fetch' routine; which happens to be over 200 lines.  I notice 
this thoughout portage.py.  This is yucky!!
Somewhere over the years, I heard routines shouldn't be longer than a 
screen page.  Regardless, 100-200+ lines per routine is ridiculous.  
Sigh...it makes hacking so much more irrating... ;-((

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 Kurt
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  There is no good and evil; there is only power.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking

[Daniel Armyr]

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>It'll put hair on your chest!

That is true, but it will make sure that hair you get is gray by the time you get it. No offense to the developers of Portage who hae done an excellent job, but the portage code is pretty much as unreadable as code can get. I was working on a few patches until I realised the only way to understand it would be line by line debugging. Once understood though, it is an excellent piece of code.

--Daniel Armyr
Non-developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] portage.py hacking

[Luke Graham]

On Fri, 30 May 2003 06:54 am, Daniel Armyr wrote:
> >It'll put hair on your chest!
>
> That is true, but it will make sure that hair you get is gray by the time
> you get it. No offense to the developers of Portage who hae done an
> excellent job, but the portage code is pretty much as unreadable as code
> can get. I was working on a few patches until I realised the only way to
> understand it would be line by line debugging. Once understood though, it
> is an excellent piece of code.

It was hard to write, it should be hard to read! ;)

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