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Re: A new method of storing ... (was: Re: [ITP] re2c)
On Fri, 14 May 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 11:18:40PM -0400, Daniel Reed wrote:
> >On 2004-05-13T23:22+0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> >) Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> >) > Hallo,
> >) >
> >) > want to maintain re2c: http://re2c.org/
> >) >
> >) > # re2c setup.hint
> >) > @ re2c
> >) No need for the above 2 lines.
> >
> >Actually, starting sometime soon the "@ " line may indeed be needed.
>
> ACK! No, please. I've been actively advocating not to do this for some
> time. I can't imagine why this would not be obvious from context. It is
> always better to let the computer do the work for you and just dropping
> a setup.hint in an appropriately named directory is guaranteed to be
> less error prone than putting a name in a setup.hint file that is the
> same name as a directory.
>
> I have actually been removing these redundant lines whenever I find them
> in a setup.hint.
>
> cgf
Actually, I see this as a different point. IMO, Dan says that the '@ '
line will be needed in the *inline* copy of setup.hint that's included in
the ITP messages. The actual setup.hint (if there's a link to it) doesn't
have to (and, I agree, should not) include it. Also, the '@ ' line can be
easily filtered out by the automatic submission program, so that the
resulting setup.hint in the package directory won't have it.
Igor
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