[gobolinux-devel] [gobolinux-commits] tools/Compile/bin RecipeLint

[André Detsch]

On 11/20/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> > full support would be equivalent
> > to reimplementing the parser that already exists in CheckDependencies
> > (which is being used by RecipeLint, anyway). To improve checking of
> > dependencies, the right approach is to improve the communication between
> > RecipeLint and CheckDependencies (which is where dependency checking
> > should take place).
>
> I agree to that this is the best approach, but that needs
> CheckDependencies to have some sort of API to handle this.
> André, as CheckDependencies maintainer, do you have any idea on how this
> could be implemented? Perhaps a --syntax option to CheckDependencies?

Or a --mode=syntax (at this moment, we have --mode=all, missing,
updating and list).

It won't be hard to implement. What exactly should it return? A
message for each old-style line at the Dependencies/BuildDependencies
files? Would this string be catch by RecipeLint or it would be printed
directly?

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Andre Detsch