Re: [ros-dev] platform dependent configuration files

[Timo Kreuzer]

I second that. What about simply using the C preprocessor?

Regards, Timo

Matthias Kupfer wrote:
>   HI,
>
>  recently I had to alter some inf-files for fixing a bug. At present we have 
>  for each platform (i386, arm, amd64) separate files, which are hard to 
>  maintain because of some identical, that aren't platform dependent. Therefore 
>  I suggest the following change and I will write an example and the necessary 
>  tool:
>  - combine all platforms to one file and work with special block markers
>  - block markers work like filters, empty markers means all platforms otherwise 
>  the platforms limited to are given in comma separated lists
>  - we have to maintain only one single file and the alteration is minimal, 
>  because the marker is a simple (syntactically comment) line 
>  like ";#platform_a,platform_b#" or ";##"
>  - the needed file is extracted at build time, always up-to-date and shipped in 
>  the same way as present
>
>  General remark: we have to make some efforts to bring (or at least to keep) 
>  the project in understandable and maintanable state. We have to use and 
>  introduce tools to reduce needless efforts resulted by managing multiple 
>  similar files which could be better generated without failures (that people 
>  tends to do). This and only this is my intention for this suggestion.
>
>  Request for comments - other ways or changes with same goal are welcome
>
>  Matthias
>
>