[PATCH modular] Implement a classification for scripts using subdirectories

[Dirk Wallenstein]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 05:42:26AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 15:14 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> >
> > Of course,
> > this is what jhbuild already does, and I'm not sure it's worth
> > reinventing the wheel.
> >
> > Not quite. It does not do platform checks, so geode breaks and we get a post
> > on
> > the list asking what is wrong. It happened to me, so I fixed build.sh. At
> > the time I looked
> > at jhbuild, the module list had not been updated for a year, so I though it
> > was abandoned.
> >
> > Having appropriate module lists would of course solve this problem. This
> > seems to be
> > a recurrent theme.
> 
> Ah, I wasn't aware that jhbuild didn't have platform conditionals. My
> hope is that if there was a list of all the module tarballs that would
> be in the next katamari that a developer doing a module release would
> update the list as part of the release process.

X-JHBuild can generate a list of modules to skip for your current or
another platform/os combination.  It does so implicitly with the 'init'
subcommand for the current system.

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Greetings,
Dirk