Re: mingw-get: [RFC]: package group hierarchy

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 4:47 PM, Keith Marshall wrote:
>> On 16/08/13 21:17, Keith Marshall wrote:
>>> You will note that [the latest mingw-get release] now makes the
>>> package group hierarchy significant, so we do need to give it some
>>> attention. A particular anomaly of note: the "MinGW Source-Level
>>> Debugger" category, (which maybe should be called more simply "MinGW
>>> Debugger"), has no packages affiliated; it should include, at the
>>> very least, the GDB packages.
>>>
>>> I'm sure there may be other anomalies, so please give this some thought.
>>
>> Ping.
>>
>> BTW, I notice that you, Earnie, have introduced some new package group
>> categories.  That's absolutely fine, but I also notice that you've
>> published a new GDB release, yet still no affiliation to the existing
>> debugger group.
>
> Do we really need a stand alone group for the debugger?  I've been
> meaning to ask that question.
>

I added the affiliate group to gdb but I still question the need.

Also, I'm thinking we still need to move the affiliate grouping to the
component for visual effect and have an attribute named group for the
component.

<component class="bin" group="MinGW Base System" group="MinGW Compiler Suite">
<component class="dev" group="MinGW Base System" group="MinGW Standard
Libraries">

>>
>> Finally, please consider enabling modelines in your vim configuration,
>> so we keep consistent formatting within the catalogues; you may then need to
>>
>>   :set ts=8
>>   :retab 2
>>
>> to restore the layout for those you've modified without modelines set.
>
> Huh?  I thought all the files had a vim modelines in the catalogue
> files.  Is there something special I need to do?  Hmm... set modeline
> is sensitive to where it is falls in the order of options in the
> .vimrc file.  Put it in the wrong place and another set command will
> destroy the set modeline option.

I retabbed gdb and mingw32-package-list; the others can wait on another update.

-- 
Earnie
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