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

[Jonas Karlsson]

2006/11/21, André Detsch <detsch at gobolinux.org>:
> 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?
>
I think catch by RecipeLint, to keep track of errors encountered,
though I'm not sure if it should generate an error per line
malformatted or not. Make CheckDependencies return 1 for old
dependency style (warning) and 2 for real errors.

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/Jonas