From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ilbz9-00079t-EY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:05:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id l9R34NdQ028655; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:04:23 GMT Received: from vms046pub.verizon.net (vms046pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l9R32Vxk026344 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:02:32 GMT Received: from gw.thefreemanclan.net ([68.238.191.207]) by vms046.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JQJ00KHCV3IRVM9@vms046.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 22:02:07 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw.thefreemanclan.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57DBB124083 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:02:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 23:02:04 -0400 From: Richard Freeman Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Opinions Wanted - Arrays again :) In-reply-to: <1193433447.3487.11.camel@uberpc.marples.name> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <4722AA2C.9080306@thefreemanclan.net> 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 Content-type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/x-pkcs7-signature"; micalg=sha1; boundary=------------ms020703080400080107090506 OpenPGP: id=A6665569 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.2 References: <1193326831.4245.16.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <20071025213113.GJ29642@supernova> <1193348959.2910.9.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <20071025225641.GK29642@supernova> <1193380105.2913.1.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <4721BE92.4070200@thefreemanclan.net> <1193395366.4312.14.camel@uberlaptop.marples.name> <1193418183.3487.3.camel@uberpc.marples.name> <1193433447.3487.11.camel@uberpc.marples.name> User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070813) X-Archives-Salt: c65e24fc-f7b6-462d-9de6-0b80b3741b80 X-Archives-Hash: d94c48b0c46e99c2ce1ca0b92c71f7de This is a cryptographically signed message in MIME format. --------------ms020703080400080107090506 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roy Marples wrote: > One issue with that is there is no automatic way of doing that. We just > pass the array elements onto the various programs > > config_eth0=( "1.2.3.4/24" "some voodoo" ) > becomes > ifconfig eth0 1.2.3.4/24 > ifconfig eth0 some voodoo > > We also do the same for iproute2 which has a very comples language > structure. We also do this for most of the helper programs that we use - > vlan, bridging, wireless just to name a few. > > Do we want variables for every single possibility? > > The beauty with the array structure is that it allows the user to define > a sequence of commands to send to a helper. The issue with the array > structure is that it is bash and we strive to support non bash shells > hence the discussion. > Thanks for clarifying this - I can see the where you're coming from a bit better in light of this explanation. I think that as long as the documentation is clear and well-commented we should be in good shape - the goal is of course to make things fairly transparent to the less-educated among us - especially when we're talking about something simple like setting up a static IP network or DHCP. 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