Re: Hashing support for make

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2011 at 03:28:36AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 > the attached patch implements the :th modifier. It is intended to cut
 > down the output for MKREPRO=yes. This reduces the amount of IO for
 > verbose builds and also avoids copying data, so it should over all be at
 > least performance neutral.

Other than the name of the modifier, I like it.

As for the name of the modifier, how about just "hash"? While ~all of
the existing modifiers are cryptic, they're the names of operations
and transforms, and I think it's generally better for them to be like
function names than like sed commands.

Changing old ones is problematic, but I think ideally new ones should
be words.

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David A. Holland
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