[gobolinux-devel] Options for MakeRecipe

[Jonas Karlsson]

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 00:54:53 +0100, Hisham Muhammad <hisham.hm at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On 11/22/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
>> I'm going though all scripts to use the Arg n and atm I'm stuck on
>> MakeRecipe. According to scriptUsage the arguments are "{{[<app_name>
>> [<app_version>]] <url>} | {<app_name> cvs -d <server> co <module>} |
>> {<app_name> svn co <svn url>}". What I wondered is: do we really specify
>> '-d' and 'co'? Wouldn't "{{[<app_name> [<app_version>]] <url>} |
>> {<app_name> cvs <server> <module>} | {<app_name> svn <svn url>}" be
>> better? We already know that we want to checkout the code and that '-d'
>> needs to be before the server argument when calling cvs.
>
> To make it simpler when copying and pasting from CVS instructions in
> websites (such as sourceforge.net).
>
Yes, I know why it's there, but my question is still if it's needed. I've  
looked around and most of the times the URL is in the form "cvs -z3  
-d:pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/goboscripts co  
<modulename>", where the module name isn't specified, so one cannot paste  
it directly from the instructions anyway. Then I thought that why keep  
'-d' and 'co' as those are redundant and it's not that much harder to  
select only the  
"pserver:anonymous at cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/goboscripts" part.

I'm ok with keeping them, just that I didn't find it easier if one had to  
specify the '-d' and 'co'. There's one problem though: Parse_Option will  
die with "unknown option: -d" unless the string is quoted or the option  
'-d' is added to MakeRecipe.

-- 
/Jonas

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