On Jan 13, 2008 8:51 PM, Travis Willard
I just wanted to throw this out there - this feature in general is straying away from the simplicity of PKGBUILDs.
Can anyone give me a compelling reason why Dan's suggested implementation of this feature is any better than just doing the following:
build () { source $startdir/src/perl.build;
pre_build(); perl_build(); post_build(); }
Which, to me, is a ton clearer about what exactly is going on than some seemingly random variable in the sea of PKGBUILD options called 'buildlib=perl.build'.
It feels too much like featuritis, and hiding stuff from the users, in any of the implementations suggested.
Nicely done, nicely done. I always said that "source" is our equivalent of an "eclass". This is the best implementation I've see, so props.