[maemo-developers] Enriching the Application Manager scripting experience

[From: Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 05:42:57PM +0200, Marius Vollmer wrote:
> "ext Marius Gedminas" <marius at pov.lt> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 04:28:37PM +0200, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >> Let me try...
> >> 
> >>     [install]
> >>     temporary_file_relative_repo_deb = .repository/mistral mistral
> >>     temporary_file_relative_repo_deb_3 = .repository/bora bora
> >
> > On second thought, this would be better:
> >
> >       temporary_repo_deb = file-relative:///.repository/mistral mistral
> >       temporary_repo_deb_3 = file-relative:///.repository/bora bora
> >
> > The app manager can straightforwardly replace the file-relative:///
> > prefix to file:///path/to/the/location/
> 
> But that would mean more parsing in more places.  I'd like to parse
> only once, when reading the data structure, and the code then just
> walks this data structure without the need for more parsing.

My personal strategy when designing file formats is to consider the
convenience of the person who will write them first.  Parsing is not
that hard (unless you're trying to parse natural language).

Marius Gedminas
-- 
I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right
there!!
        -- Steve Gonedes
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