2006-03-01 00:32:47 +01:00
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$NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2006/02/28 23:32:47 rillig Exp $
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2006-02-04 05:10:12 +01:00
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== Current problems ==
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The current pkglint architecture will not scale much further. What is
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needed next are parsers for nested, non-context-free languages (make(1),
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sh(1), sed(1)). The parsers should be able to recognize partial
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structures, as well as structures containing foreign parts. This is
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because most of pkgsrc is heavily based on preprocessors:
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- The .if and .for directives in Makefiles are preprocessed by make(1)
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before building dependencies and shell commands out of the remaining
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text.
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- make(1) assembles shell commands from literal text and variables like
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${PKGNAME}.
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- Shell commands often use dynamic evaluation of variables.
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All this makes enhancing pkglint non-trivial. If you know of any
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academic papers that might be of help in this case, please tell me.
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The pkglint source code is much too big for a single file.
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