Re: bob v0.5.0 and easy full-tree scans

[Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost>]

Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost> writes:

> That's great to hear. Lintpkgsrc performs the same scan task, so it
> could benefit from your fast code. Currently pkglint uses an error-prone
> hand-written bmake parser, often leading to wrong results.
>
> It should be possible to test if bob is installed, and if so, call it
> instead of doing lintpkgsrc's own scan phase.

Another reason why bob should be installed as a package.   I am guessing
you do not really mean "look for this program at some random place ih
the user's path and run it" which is outside the pkgsrc norm of
packaging-time binding.