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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