Subject: Re: PLIST format
To: Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi@gmail.com>
From: Roland Illig <rillig@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/13/2007 17:57:48
Masao Uebayashi wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Has anyone had a thought that pkgsrc PLIST format should be similar to
> ``sets/lists'' format? The point is that path is written from column
> 0, like:
> bin/foobar
> not like
> ${HAVE_HOGE}bin/foobar
>
> Possible new format would look like:
> bin/foobar hoge
> This improves readability and grep'ability.
We currently have about 1000 files with white-space in their names, so
the new syntax leads to new problems.
$ grep PLIST: pkgsrc.grep | grep ":[a-z].* " | wc -l
998
Roland