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- From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
- To: sm-grimoire <sm-grimoire AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [SM-Grimoire] preferred DEPENDS format
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 08:36:03 -0800
Quoting Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>:
> On Tuesday 25 November 2003 05:09 am, Hamish Greig wrote:
> > just following up on the perforce changelist mail.
> > What are the proposed formats for DEPENDS files ?
> > two so far are
> > optional_depends "blablabla" \
> > "--with-blardybla" \
> > "--with-blardybla=no" \
> > "for blardryblabla support"
> >
> > optional_depends "blablabla" "--with-blardybla" "--with-blardybla=no" "for
> > blardryblabla support" (just had to turn off wordwrapping for the 2nd one)
> >
> > Any other formats ?
> > Any other files we should be looking at too ?
> >
> > Personally I would rather scroll right to view the last word of a hint
> that
> > have to scroll down for the actual depends itself.
> >
> > Hamish
>
>
> I usually only use the first format when most or all of the description
> cannot
> be read w/o scrolling. That usually only happens when there's stuff in both
>
> the middle two fields. If I have an optional depends w/o anything in the
> middle field(s), I generally put it on one line, 'cause it looks better,
> IMHO.
And I believe that's the "unofficial" way to do dependencies, as I've seen
others (and I usually follow that as well) use this setup.
I'd say the first method should be used only if you have long entries in the
y/n
fields, otherwise use the second method.
-sandalle
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[SM-Grimoire] preferred DEPENDS format,
Hamish Greig, 11/25/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] preferred DEPENDS format,
Jason Flatt, 11/25/2003
- Re: [SM-Grimoire] preferred DEPENDS format, Eric Sandall, 11/25/2003
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Re: [SM-Grimoire] preferred DEPENDS format,
Jason Flatt, 11/25/2003
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