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Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] What happened to version numbers?
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Volker Grabsch |
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Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] What happened to version numbers? |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Dec 2012 14:02:00 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Tony Theodore schrieb:
> Finally getting a chance to look at this[1] again - free for the rest of the
> year!
Great!
> On 24/04/2012, at 12:19 AM, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> > That's why I think it's worth to try to leave doc generation
> > completely out of the Makefile. The nice thing about the
> > JavaScript approach is that it requires no redundancy, as the
> > docs "generation" is "moved" from the Makefile into the browser.
>
> I can't find a way to get client-side javascript to glob all the src/*.mk
> files.
Indeed, that's a problem. Would you mind creating an issue tracker
entry for that?
> I think it could read a manifest and then parse each of the files, but we'd
> still have to generate or maintain that manifest. I suppose this could be an
> ignored file in the tree that is simply refreshed with "ls" every build?
Okay, some quick thoughts:
I'm afraid that generating a manifest would defeat the purpose
of using JavaScript in the first place, as the whole point was
to have a mechanism that works without running Make (or other
scripts). Otherwise we'd have trouble running this as GitHub Page.
Also, if we require server-side scripts, this would loose some
of its charme and "coolnes", I think. ;-)
I propose to simplify the package list (index.html) as follows:
A) remove all unneeded IDs "PKG-package", "PKG-version", ...
B) remove all version numbers
Example:
<table id="package-list">
<tr>
<td>agg</td>
<td></td>
<td><a href="http://www.antigrain.com/">Anti-Grain Geometry</a></td>
</tr>
...
One could also move the 3rd column (package website and
official name) back into the *.mk files, but I don't see
much value in such a move.
The JavaScript should perform the following:
a) run through all <tr> elements below getElementById('package-list')
b) load package name from first <td> child
c) load src/PKG.mk via AJAX
d) parse version number using the same regex as in the Makefile
(However, switch from SED to PCRE syntax!)
e) write to second <td> child
Since this is a very simple script, I think we should get
along without depending on jQuery or other JS libraries.
The code should run on all modern browsers, but I don't
think we should add any IE-specific workarounds.
As a reminder, at least following places need to be changed:
1) index.html: Package list
2) index.html: Section "Guidelines for Creating Packages"
3) all src/*.mk files: add $(PKG)_VERSION
4) Makefile: adjust: PKGS = ...
5) Makefile: remove lines 133-142
6) Makefile: "make update": adjust lines 234-236
Regarding the Makefile, it might be a good idea to simply revert
some old changes, at least partly, because we're essentially
restoring its old behaviour.
Regards,
Volker
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Volker Grabsch
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