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Re: pkglint -Wall



On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:42:00PM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
[... quoting lecture snipped ...]

Wow, that was an impressive lecture.  Thanks.

> So, make(1) is able to quote shell strings very well and accurately, 
> with nice syntax, so that I would like to have these modifiers in the 
> shell as well (this won't happen either). For quoting to other languages 
> than the shell, there is currently no support. So there are many 
> remaining problems, they just don't show up yet.

There are a lot of reasons I've been asking myself the following
question, but your post does more than just adding one to list, I think.

Do we really really want to keep using make(1) for pkgsrc?

-- 
Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost - cube%NetBSD.org@localhost
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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