Re: Forcing dependencies on wmk

[Denis Barbier <nospam@thanx>]

On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Denis Barbier wrote:

> Syntax:
> o Add the ``depend'' attribute after the #use or #include directive.
>   This file won't be included, but wmk will be told about this
>   dependancy.
> o You can use filename patterns, i.e. ? is any single chararacter
>   and * matches any string. Brackets are not yet implemented.

I have a killer argument against this syntax: it will be really confusing
when this syntax is run through wml-1.6.8 (the file will be inserted).

So i adopt the ``#depends'' suntax.

> For instance, if you have datas under datas/01, datas/02,... add
>   #include 'datas/0?/*.dat' depend

becomes
  #depends 'datas/0?/*.dat'

Wml < 1.7.2 will see this file as a comment.
It's implemented and should be available at midnight.

> 1- The 2 following lines are equivalent
>            #use a::b::c
>            #include <b/c.a>

Oops, not exactly. The :: syntax works with #include too. The #use
variant ensures files are read only once.

Denis

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