[pacman-dev] [PATCH 6/6] makepkg: make built script sourceable

[Dave Reisner]

On Fri, Aug 08, 2014 at 02:11:09PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 08/08/14 09:22, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > Aside from the hack at the foot of the script, this commit introduces no
> > logical changes or new code. Any globally scoped declaration or code are
> > moved into a 'makepkg_main' function which is called when the script is
> > executed (not sourced).
> > 
> > Doing this allows other scripts to source makepkg for its juicy
> > functions, and also makes these functions more easily unit testable.
> > 
> > This commit explicitly does NOT attempt to define an API or any other
> > stability guarantees of any kind.
> 
> I am OK with this as an interim solution.  Note that we have added the
> ability to have makepkg split up into small independent files (which I
> think is good for testing and reusability), so I'd like us to head that
> way at some stage.
> 
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This feature you speak of seems poorly/not-at-all documented and
half-finished (nothing uses it, at least). It's also a solution which
could be independent of being able to source makepkg as a final result.

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