Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage feature comments please

Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage feature comments please

[Achim Gottinger]

Thomas Flavel wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2001 at 07:18:32PM -0700, drobbins@gentoo.org wrote:
> >
> > What if I code it so that:
> >
> > DEPEND="~foo/bar-1"
> >
> > would match foo/bar-1.0, foo/bar-1.1, foo/bar-1.2, etc.
> >
> > DEPEND="~foo/bar-1.0"
> >
> > could match foo/bar-1.0.1 as well as foo/bar-1.0-r1, etc.  Is that a useful
> > extension or am I generalizing the functionality too much by matching
> > sub-versions as well as multiple revs?

What about that situation.

> >
> 
> I think that would be nice. Would it make more sense though to say
> 
> DEPEND="=foo/bar-1*"
> 
> and
> 
> DEPEND="=food/bar-1.0*"
> 
> that way >=, = etc could be combined with wildcards, like:
> 
> DEPEND=">=foo/bar-1*"

I whould prefere wildcards too. To simplify coding I think that a
wildcard should only match a version or 
subversion number. So things like foo/b*r-1.0 don't work. Maybe thinks
like {alpha,beta} [1-2] whould be nice too. 
But the ~ syntax should be easier to code and satisfy our needs too.

achim~

> 
> - Tom
> 
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