> Colin Walters <walters <at> redhat.com> writes: > > I actually started translating some spec files into a new build system > > to solve other problems that Fedora has like rampant copy+paste of > > scriptlets, etc. You can see some examples of my thoughts here: > > > > A simple one: > > http://cdn.verbum.org/hotwire.py > > A lot more complex: > > http://cdn.verbum.org/hal.py This is atrocious and quite worse than the XML spec variant that was kicked out of rpm recently. If you're going to rewrite the spec syntax I'll ask that: 1. this new syntax is discussed and supported at rpm.org level not at the Fedora rpm build tool level (ie not a template used to generate something else à la sendmail, scrollkeeper, etc but the real thing) 2. It's not so obviously welded to a particular computing language, but is a real descriptive syntax (this bit the xml spec guys had at least gotten right) 3. this rewrite is the occasion of fixing long-standing problems in spec syntax such as grouping declaration, disttags/alphatag support, version range support,clear encoding rules [insert your pet spec peeve there]. And not just an xml-ization, python-ification or whatever of the existing pile of cruft (haven't you learned nothing from the OOXML debacle?) In short this looks awfully like a short-term win for the build tools and a long-term PITA for everyone else. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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