Re: gnu packaging ideas

[Filip Brcic]

Дана Friday 23 June 2006 13:20, Alfred M. Szmidt је написао(ла):
>    (gnu-package
>          (name "foo")
>          (version "1.2")
>          (description "This is the latest foo package")
>          (dependencies ( (>= "bar" "1.2")
>                          (>= "bla" "0.3")))
>          (post-install (system "echo hello world")))
...
>   (when (eq arch 'i386)
>     (require 'foo))
>    (when (< arch 'i686) ; Where i386, i486, i586 are all valid, but
>                        ; i787 (a fictious CPU) isn't.
>     (require 'bar))
 
Well, this is a nice package recipe. I know that you (AMS) like the 
Lisp/guile, but I am not sure that others are familiar with lisp. Therefore, 
I would like to suggest some C-like syntax for package recipes. That would 
make your recipe look something like:

# C-like syntax (with Python influence)
GNUPackage Foo
{
        Name = "foo"
        Version = "1.2"
        Description = "This is the latest foo package"
        Depends = [ "bar >= 1.2", "bla >= 0.3" ]

        if Arch = "i386"
                Depends += [ "bar2" ]
        if Arch < "i686"
                Depends += [ "bar3" ]
        
        PostInstall
        {
                system ("echo hello world")
        }
}

or similar. It would probably be smart to follow the syntax of some C-like 
language (C, Python, Perl, ...) since parsers are already there.

Cheers

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