[csw-maintainers] [csw-devel] dynamically generated adm scripts

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 07:06:37PM -0500, Ben Walton wrote:
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Mon Feb 09 17:31:42 -0500 2009:
> > > > for i in /tmp/*; do
> > > >    echo Found $$i in /tmp;
> > > > done
> > > > endef
> > 
> > Errr... this sort of usage disturbs me. 
> 
> [Assumes you're not commenting specifically on the dumb example used to
> show variable escaping and a general overview...]

i was commenting specifically, on going through /tmp/, yes.



> If you want to say that version numbers shouldn't be in path names and
> make that a CSW convention (maybe it already is?) that's fine.

its a semi-convention. people are encouraged to remove numbers from
documentation subdirs, for example.

(/opt/csw/share/doc/progname, not progname-1.2.3)


> .  You'll note that rpm provides a built-in macro language that
> is used for this type of task quite regularly.

that's.... evil.