Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Features command for arch

[Jason McCarty]

James Blackwell wrote:
> Tom Lord wrote:
> > Asking for `features' in `tla' suggests that we suddenly expect *lots*
> > of users to all be running slightly different versions of arch, some
> > with such and such feature, some without ---- *AND* ----- we expect
> > that situation to get *so* out of hand that many external tools have
> > to deal [with] all the possible combinations of features.
> 
> What? You don't think that's happening? How many are running 1.1.5?
> 1.2.0? 1.2.1? What about when 1.2.2 comes out?
> [...]
> Sure, we can offload the work to the frontends to track it, but that
> means writing code anyways. The current --version is completely broken
> for this task. With buildcfg -r, you get one version string. With
> buildcfg -r, you get a different string (not a version string at all).
> If you use a tla that comes with a distribution, then it's been screwed
> with in godawful ways.

I have to agree with James; the syntax of about 20 commands changed
between 1.1 and 1.2, and testing --version isn't completely reliable. I
resort to letting the user specify the version, or assume 1.3 when I
can't tell.

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Jason McCarty <address@hidden>