deactivate hack in PortfileRecipes?

Lawrence Velázquez larryv at macports.org
Wed Mar 6 13:04:24 PST 2013


On Mar 6, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> It is necessary to explain at least some of the implementation details
> if the reader is to understand what the code is actually doing and why.
> Depending on implementation details that code at the portfile level
> should not depend on or even need to know about is why it's a hack, of
> course.

Right. Deciding what to keep and what to delete is always the hardest part of writing.

> BTW, your replacement text is unclear regarding the array indices, since
> most people don't think in zero-indexed terms.

All to easy to forget >.<

vq


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