RE: deprecating features: -wf, Repository_Sig_Times_OK?

[Gary Oberbrunner]

My original idea was to wrap cons -wf in a shell script, which would do at
the end something like
  etags [args] `grep *.c considered-files.txt`
but then I really would like that to run only if cons really "did
something," not just considered doing something.  And I never got around to
thinking about that part of it.

Perhaps it would be nice to have a global cons method, AtEnd() or
AfterAllBuilt(), which takes a perl code ref or a string, and executes that
*only* if cons built anything.  I for one would use this immediately.  Maybe
once I get my stuff up on the latest version I'll look into that.  (I'm in
the midst of a release cycle now and can't change anything.)   If we had
this, then the shell script I mentioned above wouldn't even be needed.

-- Gary Oberbrunner

ps: I would be more than happy for -wf to be renamed.


 > -----Original Message-----
 > From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden
 > Behalf Of Doug Alcorn
 > Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 2:46 PM
 > To: address@hidden
 > Subject: Re: deprecating features: -wf, Repository_Sig_Times_OK?
 >
 >
 > "Gary Oberbrunner" <address@hidden> writes:
 >
 > > I was originally going to use -wf to rebuild the emacs TAGS
 > file from only
 > > the relevant source files, but never got around to it.  I
 > suppose I'd like
 > > it to stay just in case someone wants to do that, but on the
 > other hand that
 > > output still has to be filtered before you can use it, so
 > maybe it's not the
 > > right answer to that need.
 >
 > It would be very nice to have cons build TAGS files.  I tried to write
 > something once, but failed.  Didn't the linux kernel team finally come
 > up with some makefile rules to build TAGS files that pleased both the
 > ctags and the etags camps?  Maybe we could leverage that work.
 >
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 >  (__) Doug Alcorn (mailto:address@hidden http://www.lathi.net)
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