Re: preliminary build-depends support for libapt-pkg
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Randolph Chung wrote:
> > Can you please split out the dependency parser routine so that it may be
> > shared by the source and packages parsers?
>
> well, that's how i did it in the beginning, but build-deps have additional
> info in the dependency field (for architecture specific dependencies) so the
> parser in the debListParser class doesn't quite work. i guess i can always
> pass a flag....
Yes, exactly.
> > Return (or at least use) a vector rather than that static thing :>
>
> well, it follows the style of the pkgSrcRecords::Parser::Binaries method :)
That is done like that mostly because that function is required to locate
package records in a file, it will be called thousands of times.
Jason
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