[Build-common-hackers] class vs rules?

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

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On 2011-08-23 10:41, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
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> Classes are composed with extendability in mind, rules are not.

so if my mindset is non-extendable today i will put foo.mk in rules/
but what happens if i change my mind, and redesign it to be extendible?

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>> esp., why is "gnustep.mk" a 'class' and and "kde.mk" a 'rule'?
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> Both are classes.
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"gnustep.mk" lives in "rules" (despite me claiming it was a "class")

so is the distinction between the two types a theoretical or do you find
it easy to put a snippet into one of the 2 directories?

and how about users? is the end-user supposed to guess the compositional
structure of the snippet they want to use? ;-)

personally, i usually just do a grep (or similar) over
/usr/share/cdbs/1/*/* to find if there is anything useful for me...

fgasdr
IOhannes
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