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schmonz 6b009865ac Fix a couple misspellings, and add a couple items: * Check for parallel files/dirs whose names differ only in case (suggested by heinz) * Check for German text in pkgtools/pkglint/TODO.		2007-05-29 01:35:05 +00:00
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files	Added another helpful sentence to the explanation of the "tool vs.	2007-05-13 21:43:26 +00:00
DESCR	Replaced the DESCR from the year 2001 with a current one, since pkglint has	2005-12-01 04:05:36 +00:00
Makefile	Update to 4.77. (hi Roland!)	2007-04-24 15:32:12 +00:00
PLIST	4.15.1: Fix PLIST (hi Roland!).	2005-05-18 21:06:58 +00:00
README	The rant on Perl has moved to the pkglint book.	2006-02-28 23:32:47 +00:00
TODO	Fix a couple misspellings, and add a couple items:	2007-05-29 01:35:05 +00:00

README

$NetBSD: README,v 1.4 2006/02/28 23:32:47 rillig Exp $

== Current problems ==

The current pkglint architecture will not scale much further. What is
needed next are parsers for nested, non-context-free languages (make(1),
sh(1), sed(1)). The parsers should be able to recognize partial
structures, as well as structures containing foreign parts. This is
because most of pkgsrc is heavily based on preprocessors:

- The .if and .for directives in Makefiles are preprocessed by make(1)
  before building dependencies and shell commands out of the remaining
  text.

- make(1) assembles shell commands from literal text and variables like
  ${PKGNAME}.

- Shell commands often use dynamic evaluation of variables.

All this makes enhancing pkglint non-trivial. If you know of any
academic papers that might be of help in this case, please tell me.

The pkglint source code is much too big for a single file.