[pacman-dev] [PATCH 0/5] Splitting up makepkg into libmakepkg

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Tue Sep 3 20:23:39 EDT 2013


On 04/09/13 06:15, keenerd wrote:
> Splitting up makepkg seems a little silly. 

A >3000 line bash script that is virtually impossible to comprehensively
test is silly.

> This might qualify as "too
> simple", but please consider something like this this:
> 
> [ $1 == "--as-lib" ] && return
> 
> You place this between the function definitions and the main body of
> the script.  When you do a
> 
> source makepkg --as-lib
> 
> then it will load all the functions and bail out before getting to the
> main code.
> 

Having a library available is not the point of this.  I'd guess very
little else is actually going to use it.

A


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