hal 0.5.9.1

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Mon Jun 18 13:06:17 PDT 2007


On Montag, 18. Juni 2007, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:16 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> >       introduce new <addset> operator
>
> What advantages does this have over merge?

Allow easier add new values to existing string list without high number of 
checks if the value you want to add already exist.

> If we use this in hal-info, what do older versions (0.5.9) do? hal-info
> has to be forwards and backwards compatible...

Why have hal-info to be forward and backward compatible? This is never 
possible if you change available fdi-directives.

DAnny


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