| Re: [buckminster-dev] Action properties [WAS Action output?] |
Perhaps it's a good idea to avoid using characters that many shell might try to expand one way or another and simply use the '/' to separate?
Yes - though I don't think using '#' is a problem as we're using it now. But we can certainly decide to use '/' exclusively (which I think is fine)
We could then do: Global foo: foo 'foo' for all 'flmberry' actions (in all components): flmberry/foo 'foo' for the 'flmberry' action in 'Z': Z/flmberry/foo=bar 'foo' for all actions in 'Z' Z//foo=bar
About the only thing you can't do with this syntax is to select 'some but not all'. But I wonder if that's so useful...it can be enhanced later.
Yes, I agree. Let's make it mutable=false by default.
Just to be difficult, something else came up - what if a action designer forgets to describe a property *at all*? In order to enforce mutable=false by default, we must actually check and only allow overlays using names that have an explicit mutable=true entry...
Should be easy enough to implement. Perhaps issue a warning rather then say it's illegal?
Yes, why not. It highlights the fact that it's a non-beneficial but also non-helping request.
ken1