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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:55:35 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:24:32PM -0400, Aaron Bentley wrote:
> >How come? Existing arch names already have a distinctive syntax, so an
> >alias could be anything else (with the rule that they not intrude on the
> >real namespace).
>
> The problem is, what if I make devo="address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3"
> and then try to get "address@hidden/tlacontrib--devo--1.3"?
> Some kinds of alias expansion would turn that into
> address@hidden/address@hidden/tla--devo--1.3--1.3
I presume that if aliases expansion were added to tla, it would be done
`properly', not as a generic (without context) textual substitution; in such
a case the above is not a problem.
> >The existing patch-NN syntax would look like an alias in such a scheme,
> >but that's an unproblematic special case I think, and indeed, that feature
> >might even be able to use the alias mechanism if it were flexible enough
> >(e.g., allowed `computational aliases', if only for internal tla use).
>
> I'd rather not let aliases conflict with patch-N syntax. I think we
> should be able to specify "patch-N of the current tree-version" by using it.
I don't understand what you're saying; do you mean that you want to
_replace_ the current patch-NN syntax with something like `cur--patch-NN'?
Why not keep the patch-NN syntax too (since the probability that a user
would actually need to use this for himself seems vanishingly small)?
-Miles.
--
Would you like fries with that?
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Matthieu Moy, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Solid phases of ice, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Miles Bader, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: version aliases, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Jan Hudec, 2004/04/05