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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] configs?
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Robert Anderson |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] configs? |
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26 Sep 2003 07:47:18 -0700 |
On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 01:57, Dustin Sallings wrote:
>
> On Friday, Sep 26, 2003, at 01:27 US/Pacific, Robert Anderson wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2003-09-26 at 00:35, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> >>
> >> Is there a reason configs are required to be in the ``configs''
> >> directory? It seems like any file in that format should be
> >> sufficient.
> >>
> >> In fact, is there a benefit to having a more than one per project?
> >
> > Consider a fairly generic set of Makefiles useful for building more
> > than
> > one project. You'd want configs for each project that that set of
> > Makefiles can build. As one example.
>
> I'm not sure I follow this example. Are you suggesting having a
> project that is made up of Makefiles and references other projects that
> those makefiles can build? Either I'm not understanding that (which is
> likely since I haven't slept nearly enough this week) or it seems a
> little contrived.
It's not at all "contrived," whatever that is supposed to mean. It's
how package-framework work. It's how I work.
> The way I imagine this stuff being most used is in a project that
> makes use of a library type project. I've got a C-based application
> that pulls in a couple other C-based projects, for example. I don't
> see why I'd need to have more than one set of configs in a single
> branch pulling in different sets of sub-projects.
Because you build more than one variant of your code? One that pulls in
a gui "library" for the gui version, and one that pulls in a cli
"library" for the cli version. There's infinite possibilities.
Shouldn't a single
> sub-project set definition be adequate for any given branch of a
> project?
Well you _could_ branch your wrapper project once for every config you'd
like to use, if that's what _you_ want. But forcing a user to do that
is a limitation and not a feature. Maybe I don't want to "get" from
different branches to build different configs. In fact, I don't.
Bob
[Gnu-arch-users] Re: configs?, Samuel Tardieu, 2003/09/26
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] configs?, Andrew Suffield, 2003/09/26