[gobolinux-devel] Options for MakeRecipe

[Lucas C. Villa Real]

On 11/23/06, Jonas Karlsson <jonka750 at student.liu.se> wrote:
> > 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.

I'm ok if you take it off. I've also faced some examples where the
copy+paste didn't apply as well. My opinion is that if it's going to
add too much bloat to the code, keeping it simpler is better.

-- 
Lucas
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