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From: Peter Seebach <peter.seebach@windriver.com>
To: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: bitbake-devel@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] data_smart.py: implement _remove as a keyword like _append.
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:32:31 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120816083231.4d7cb4b0@e6410-2> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1345112026.14667.40.camel@ted>

On Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:13:46 +0100
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I read this far.
> 
> This is not going to make any friends. += and =+ behave differently to
> _append with immediate vs. delayed functionality. I think equating -=
> and =- is just going to confuse users even more. So no, I don't think
> we can do this.

I'm fine with dropping that part, I just put it in because it was a
pretty close analogue to +=/=+. It would not be hard to remove that.

> Why does this depend on 1/2 ?

Because I didn't think I could write it without the tracking code to
see what was happening.

-s
-- 
Listen, get this.  Nobody with a good compiler needs to be justified.



      reply	other threads:[~2012-08-16 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-16  1:14 [PATCH 0/2] variable/include tracking and _remove Peter Seebach
2012-08-16  1:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] data_smart.py: track file inclusion and variable modifications Peter Seebach
2012-08-16 14:32   ` Richard Purdie
2012-08-16 16:39     ` Peter Seebach
2012-08-17 10:09       ` Richard Purdie
2012-08-16  1:14 ` [PATCH 2/2] data_smart.py: implement _remove as a keyword like _append Peter Seebach
2012-08-16 10:13   ` Richard Purdie
2012-08-16 13:32     ` Peter Seebach [this message]

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