Re: Makefile variable names LCLBLD and PLGCFG

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Am Sonntag, den 17.03.2013, 18:06 +0100 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
> On 17.03.2013 18:00, Carsten Koch wrote:
> > On 03/17/13 13:00, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> >> On 17.03.2013 12:46, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> >>> Hello,
> >>>
> >>> Should probably have spoken earlier, but is there any particular reason
> >>> for the ugly and hard to read Makefile variable names LCLBLD and PLGCFG?
> >>> I suppose they're short for LOCALBUILD and PLUGINCONFIG, but why do they
> >>> have to be short for anything, it's not like we're running out of space
> >>> for their names anywhere, is it? Besides, I don't think LCLBLD describes
> >>> what its effects are very well, INPLACE would sounds better to me.
> >>>
> >>> The ship may already have sailed for plgcfg in vdr.pc as it's being used
> >>> by many plugin Makefiles already, but I believe the attached patches
> >>> should be safe for 2.0.0.
> >>
> >> I'm afraid it's too late for that.
> >
> > I do not understand why it should be too late.
> > 2.0 is not out yet.
> 
> But we're in the final testing phase.
> Besides, Ville's patch also touched the Makefiles of plugins - and
> plugin authors and distribution managers react very intense when they
> have to modify their files ;-).

If I am not mistaken, Ville’s issue was that the names were not clear.
Could a comment be added to the Makefile what the meaning is then. That
should not break anything.

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Thanks,

Paul

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