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Re: Paths for per-interpreter initialization?

From: Jeff Johnson <n3npq@mac.com>
Date: Thu 07 May 2009 - 17:01:37 CEST
Message-id: <7326DB78-C4E2-44F9-AC67-4BD31ABDE158@mac.com>

On May 7, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Mark Hatle wrote:

> Ok.. I understand now.. then my suggestion is that these should be  
> macros so that individual distributions can set specific  
> initialization options.  A reasonable default macro should be  
> provided as well.
>

Look, you will get a macro, likely with colon separation for multiple
paths, and globbing, and URI's, and security checks with digital
signatures/digests as well as simple owner/permission checks ...

... BUT ...

I need consensus on what path to use in order
to proceed to the rest.

> (In many ways I equate this to the various pre/post-prep, build, and  
> install macros that already exist.)
>

Well, none of those are macros, they are all spec file section markers,
for starters.

73 de Jeff
Received on Thu May 7 17:02:22 2009
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