[arch-general] PKGBUILD parser

Matthew Monaco dgbaley27 at verizon.net
Sun May 9 08:35:55 EDT 2010


On 05/09/2010 05:53 AM, Andre "Osku" Schmidt wrote:
> Well,
>
> my second rewrite seems also come to a dead-end, and before i rewrite
> this again, i was hoping someone here could give me tips on what would
> be the best method to parse a PKGBUILD file ?
>
> you can play with my latest fail here:
> http://osku.de/dump/pkgbuild.js/test-pkgbuild.html
>
> @todo parseBuild() fails if you have } in body
> @todo some array content in PKGBUILD mix ' and ", so this fails ATM...
> (and the test-pkgbuild.html somehow doesn't parse build() on every
> second run...)
>
> cheers
> .andre
>

Is this something that's strictly intended for the web? Because you could just 
source it, and that would only leave you with the comments to inspect.


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