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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases |
Date: |
Mon, 5 Apr 2004 17:50:45 -0400 |
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Mutt/1.3.28i |
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:04:40AM -0700, Tom Lord wrote:
> Not really. Aliases would need a distinctive syntax -- perhaps a
> prefix character.
>
> tla get :latest-emacs
How come? Existing arch names already have a distinctive syntax, so an alias
could be anything else (with the rule that they not intrude on the real
namespace). It might possibly impact error handling -- a typo could
syntactically look like an alias -- but even this seems very minor, as only
valid aliases would be accepted, and it's very unlikely that anybody would
keep lots of aliases that are a small edit-distance from real names.
The existing patch-NN syntax would look like an alias in such a scheme, but
that's an unproblematic special case I think, and indeed, that feature might
even be able to use the alias mechanism if it were flexible enough (e.g.,
allowed `computational aliases', if only for internal tla use).
[Not that a single-character prefix is all that annoying, I'm just curious
why it would be _necessary_.]
Thanks,
-Miles
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, James Blackwell, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Matthieu Moy, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Solid phases of ice, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Aaron Bentley, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Miles Bader, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Tom Lord, 2004/04/05
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/08
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: version aliases, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/08
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: version aliases, David Allouche, 2004/04/10
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] version aliases, Jan Hudec, 2004/04/05