[Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE REQUEST] changeset translation preparatory work

[Greek0]

On Mon, 31 May 2004 09:28:05 -0400
Colin Walters <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-05-30 at 15:26, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> > All of these being butt slow :-/
> 
> That's just a bug (if it's true, none of those commands seem slow to
> me).

They are somehow slow for use by scripts, simply because you need to
fork & exec tla for them. It's much slower then just looking at the dirs
directly. I don't know how most scripts do it currently, but IMHO there
are quite a few that depend on {arch} being in place, aba being
prominent example.

> > They don't need to use different tla versions, but only different
> > arch-meta-data dir names.
> 
> Hm.  Actually we can solve this problem completely by having tla know
> to search for {arch} in addition to .arch or _arch or whatever.  Then
> it can autodetect the project tree version in use and DTRT.

Ok.

Cheers,
Greek0