diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007414.html')
| -rw-r--r-- | zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007414.html | 147 |
1 files changed, 147 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007414.html b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007414.html new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ebc525b83 --- /dev/null +++ b/zarb-ml/mageia-dev/2011-August/007414.html @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> +<HTML> + <HEAD> + <TITLE> [Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo + </TITLE> + <LINK REL="Index" HREF="index.html" > + <LINK REL="made" HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20%25%7Bfoo%7D%20vs.%20%25foo&In-Reply-To=%3C4E51866F.6030800%40colin.guthr.ie%3E"> + <META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow"> + <META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> + <LINK REL="Previous" HREF="007413.html"> + <LINK REL="Next" HREF="007416.html"> + </HEAD> + <BODY BGCOLOR="#ffffff"> + <H1>[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo</H1> + <B>Colin Guthrie</B> + <A HREF="mailto:mageia-dev%40mageia.org?Subject=Re%3A%20%5BMageia-dev%5D%20%25%7Bfoo%7D%20vs.%20%25foo&In-Reply-To=%3C4E51866F.6030800%40colin.guthr.ie%3E" + TITLE="[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo">mageia at colin.guthr.ie + </A><BR> + <I>Mon Aug 22 00:27:59 CEST 2011</I> + <P><UL> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007413.html">[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007416.html">[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7414">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7414">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7414">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7414">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + <HR> +<!--beginarticle--> +<PRE>'Twas brillig, and Zé at 21/08/11 23:16 did gyre and gimble: +><i> Hi, +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Theres been a private discussion regarding the macro correct layout, if +</I>><i> %{foo} or %foo. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This rised when in the wiki +</I>><i> page <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kde4_packaging_policy">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=kde4_packaging_policy</A> i changed +</I>><i> the spec layout from %foo into %{foo} to be as a reference point, in +</I>><i> wich mikala has reverted back to %foo, and this discussion has taken +</I>><i> other porportions so i would like your opinions regarding this. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I have pointed that for a wiki page should be proper to use %{...} to +</I>><i> avoid doubts specially in beginners minds, since in some situations we +</I>><i> need really to use the {} delimitations. +</I>><i> In wich its recommendation its focused in this cute PDF from redhat website: +</I>><i> +</I>><i> <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Wednesday_130pm_Tom_Callaway_OSS.pdf">http://www.redhat.com/promo/summit/2008/downloads/pdf/Wednesday_130pm_Tom_Callaway_OSS.pdf</A> +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Im not refering that now we should use only %{...}, that usage can be +</I>><i> handled from the user prespective (for example in my specs locally i +</I>><i> generally dont use delimitations), some like others dont. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As we also see in rpm macros +</I>><i> document <A HREF="http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Macros">http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Macros</A> that we can use +</I>><i> both, but in all rpm docs and config files the common usage its with +</I>><i> delimitations. +</I> +FWIW, personally I tend to use delimiters also. + +I prefer it as it feels more like strict typing.... I know it's not but +I always like to make things totally and unequivocally explicit all the +same. + +I tend to do this in my bash scripts and even in PHP scripts too (tho' +annoyingly the PHP delimiters go outside of the variable identifier +unlike in RPM macros and bash, so it's syntactically a little different +but the same principles apply). + +Cheers + +Col + + + + + +-- + +Colin Guthrie +mageia(at)colin.guthr.ie +<A HREF="http://colin.guthr.ie/">http://colin.guthr.ie/</A> + +Day Job: + Tribalogic Limited [<A HREF="http://www.tribalogic.net/">http://www.tribalogic.net/</A>] +Open Source: + Mageia Contributor [<A HREF="http://www.mageia.org/">http://www.mageia.org/</A>] + PulseAudio Hacker [<A HREF="http://www.pulseaudio.org/">http://www.pulseaudio.org/</A>] + Trac Hacker [<A HREF="http://trac.edgewall.org/">http://trac.edgewall.org/</A>] +</PRE> + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="007413.html">[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="007416.html">[Mageia-dev] %{foo} vs. %foo +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#7414">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#7414">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#7414">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#7414">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">More information about the Mageia-dev +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |