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From: "Michael A Chase" <mchase AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>,
   "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
   "Joshua Franklin" <joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
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Subject: Package Lint
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 21:16:29 -0800
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I have been away for a while and would be interested in working on a package
lint as a way of getting back in the loop.  What would you like it to check
first?

My first thought would be to make it a Perl script.

Likely features:
1. No /usr/info/dir allowed.
2. Syntax check setup.hints.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>; "Joshua Franklin"
<joshuadfranklin AT yahoo DOT com>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2002 20:44
Subject: Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> > Should setup.exe *refuse* to install a file called "/usr/info/dir" --
> > just to keep us safe?  Or is that setting a bad precedent?  [Or maybe
> > upset can "lint" the packages on sourceware, and refuse to add
> > foo-1.2.tar.gz to setup.ini if it contains a proscribed file like
> > /usr/info/dir]
>
> On my personal TODO list is a command line unix package linter.
> Setup.exe may some mechanism to manage state data - /etc/foo.cfg,
> /usr/info/dir etc, but I think a simpl solution to catch 99% of cases is
> the package linter. And yes, it should refuse to add the package, and
> email the maintainer (IMO).




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