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

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 08.01.2026 um 21:31 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> 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.

Thanks for the pointer. I would have asked myself this during
implementation. Now I know that right now is not the right time to
implement this.

Roland