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History

rillig 77f98effcf - Added OVERRIDE_DIRDEPTH to the list of known variables. - Added the -Cglobal option for inter-package checks (disabled by default) that may consume a lot of memory. - Adjusted pkglint to another change in the TOOLS framework which had not been detected automatically. - MD5 checksums are no longer deprecated, they are now obsolete.		2006-07-06 17:40:17 +00:00
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files	- Added OVERRIDE_DIRDEPTH to the list of known variables.	2006-07-06 17:40:17 +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	Updated pkglint to 4.66.	2006-07-02 09:47:17 +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	* Invent an annotation scheme for files that intentionally define	2006-07-04 10:01:06 +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.