Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 16:15:18 -0400 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Cc: cvs-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: files/patch-* pathname separators Message-ID: <p06020418bcac84c4dfaf@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20040421130214.GC5052@FreeBSD.org> References: <200404181922.i3IJMkTf044706@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040419032304.GA61048@regency.nsu.ru> <20040419103101.GB26102@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040419110810.GA24385@regency.nsu.ru> <20040420200903.GA6174@dragon.nuxi.com> <20040421094050.GA5052@FreeBSD.org> <40864E82.90904@portaone.com> <xzpu0zdv7hb.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040421130214.GC5052@FreeBSD.org>
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At 1:02 PM +0000 4/21/04, Eivind Eklund wrote: > >I'd really ike to document *something* as the canonical form - and >that shouldn't be "patch-aa". If the consensus is that this should >use :: as a separator, I'm very happy with that - and if it is that >it should be +, I'm more happy with that than with variation :-) Not that this will be enough of a selling-point to most developers, but note that *if* the pkg-data project does collapse patch files into a single file, then the pathname could be almost anything. We could, for instance, use slash's as the canonical form of the name in the pkg-data file. Then the "expand" and "contract" options could pick some replacement value for slash (or even create a full hierarchy of real directories), with that being a user-specified option. Thus, each user could chose whatever form that they are happy with. So before screaming that a "full hierarchy of real directories is incredibly stupid!", please note that you would only get that if you personally set it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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