Re: Project options and other format enhancements (and dropping "variants")

[Angelos Evripiotis <angelos evripiotis gmail com>]

Heya!

> Does this need to be possible from the commandline ? When doing development or integration work I think 
> it's fine to be editing .bst files to enable/disable debug for invididual components as needed.

This is what I do now too, so I agree somewhat.

I would already find it more convenient to be able to do it from the
command-line though, if nothing else it would make it easier to switch
back and forth. If it's on the CLI then the source-control story is
less complicated - e.g. did I remember to pop that debugging commit
before pushing?

When helping others do stuff, I'd find it easier to share a
command-line example than a patch.

I'm also thinking of a future where we have 1000's of .bsts, and
wanting to debug or otherwise customize a handful of ones that I
haven't authored. In this case it feels like if something like 'bst
build --option mylib.bst:debug=true' were idiomatic, I probably
wouldn't even need to read those .bst's first, let alone figure out a
good patch to do what I want.


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 12:51 PM, Sam Thursfield
<sam thursfield codethink co uk> wrote:
> Hi Angelos,
>
> On 14/09/17 20:59, Angelos Evripiotis wrote:
> > (1) Building particular elements for debugging
> >
> > i.e. while keeping the rest optimised. In the options world, I think this
> > means
> > changing some options selectively from the command-line. Perhaps something
> > like
> > this would be workable: 'bst build app1.bst --option
> > mylib.bst:debug=true'.
>
>
> Does this need to be possible from the commandline ? When doing development
> or integration work I think it's fine to be editing .bst files to
> enable/disable debug for invididual components as needed.
>
> Sam
>
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