Re: [Gnu-arch-users] arch roadmap 1 (and "what's tom up to")

[Andrew Suffield]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 11:51:19AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> Here's an example of how the issue of the need for a language creeps
> into arch.  Consider our configuration files.   We have:
> 
>       ~/.arch-params/hooks
> 
>       ~/.arch-params/signing/*
> 
>         $proj/{arch}/=tagging-method
> 
>         $library/=greedy
> 
>         $library/=sparse
> 
> 
> _These_ all have "ad hoc" syntaxes and semantics, and all different.

Of that list, ~/.arch-params/hook and {arch}/=tagging-method are more
or less right the way they are. Sometimes a domain-specific answer is
the right answer.

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