Re: [Helidelinux-devel] bpm spec files get a new tag, and emacs sizes

[Bennett T. <be...@ra...>]

2004-05-13T08:50:23 Rolf Veen:
> It is so nice to be free from schemas and to be able to
> add fields on the fly :-).

For _sure_, that freedom has been something I've been adamant on
since well before you came strolling into my life and lured me away
to this OGDL thingie:-).

Before I was doing OGDL, I was specifying my packaging spec files in
Lua <URL:http://www.lua.org/>. Looked a _lot_ like my current OGDL
spec files, only with a bit more typographic noise. Instead of:

    pkg tla-1.2

    url http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-arch/tla-1.2.tar.gz

    build \
        tar xzf tla-1.2.tar.gz
        cd tla-1.2
        cd src
        mkdir =build
        cd =build
        ../configure --prefix=/usr --destdir=$BPM_ROOT --with-cc='gcc -Os -s -static'
        make
        make test
        make install

it would have been:

    pkg = "tla-1.2";

    url = "http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-arch/tla-1.2.tar.gz";

    build = [[
        tar xzf tla-1.2.tar.gz
        cd tla-1.2
        cd src
        mkdir =build
        cd =build
        ../configure --prefix=/usr --destdir=$BPM_ROOT --with-cc='gcc -Os -s -static'
        make
        make test
        make install
    ]];

I like OGDL, no question it's still cleaner and sweeter, but the Lua
version didn't half suck:-). And it was every bit as open-ended and
schema-free.

-Bennett