Re: [yocto] Recipe Grep'ing

["Khem Raj" <raj.khem@gmail.com>]

On 5/5/21 5:41 PM, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> I was pondering putting some work in to a fairly large patch set aimed 
> at making recipes easier to grep through, and wanted to get some 
> feedback before I put time and effort into it.
> 
> I have often found that the following pattern cleanly describes the 
> "what" and the "why" when grep'ing through recipes to search for things:
> 
> FOO += "item1"
> FOO += "item2"
> 
> Whereas this pattern gives us the "what", but not the "why":
> 
> FOO = "item1 \
>               item2 \
>              "
> 
> After discussing this with Richard Purdie on IRC, I also understand that 
> the latter pattern benefits some forms of build output. In addition, for 
> SRC_URI, the "why" is normally fairly obvious from context clues.
> 
> So, is there any interest in accepting a patch set of that nature for 
> Yocto and OE repositories? If so, what variables and situations should 
> be considered "off limits" to a change like that?

I think it is a good idea, however, to make it persistent it would be 
nice to have a linter, which can do such checks and perhaps we can 
enable this in autobuilders so we can keep such cleansups maintained

> 
> ..Ch:W..
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> -- 
> *"Perfection must be reached by degrees; she requires the slow hand of 
> time." - Voltaire*
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