[gobolinux-devel] MailRecipe - OK to add to CVS?

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 8/1/06, MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:
> I recently submitted a recipe as almost-text instead of an attachment in
> http://www.wotfun.com/pipermail/gobolinux-recipes/2006-July/000616.html
> and no-one flamed me yet, so is it OK if I add the script that
> makes them (MailRecipe) to CVS?

I didn't flame you because I had spare time at the time I saw it, so I
just reproduced your recipe by hand ;-)

> Sending recipes in a text-like format is good because:
> 1. it's easier for the gurus to read through quickly
> 2. we avoid the 33% base64 size penalty, and
> 3. people can cut-and-paste bits out of the archive later if needed.

Well, I don't really like it, to be sincere. It's much better to me to
review recipes in a tarball, since I already have a 'ReviewRecipes'
script which deals with that. RecipeLint also takes a tarball as a
parameter and inspects it in a transparent way.

I think that in particular cases it's ok to send pieces of the recipe
in plain text before submitting the tarball, but that will probably
happen only while the recipe itself is not fully functional.

-- 
Lucas
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