Re: Proposal: Extending dependency attributes

[Tristan Van Berkom <tr...@codethink.co.uk>]

Hi again.

On Thu, 2020-07-30 at 16:02 +0000, Benjamin Schubert wrote:
> Hey Everyone,
> 
> I am in favor of the proposition, +1 there.
> 
> Here are a few points I think we should be mindful of though:
> 
> 1) The format:
> 
> I think the format we should be using is:
> 
> ```
> - depends:
>   - filename: one.bst  # Either a single element
>     config: ...
>   - filename:  # Or a list
>     - one.bst
>     - two.bst
>     config: ...
> ```
> 
> This is very close to what other yaml-based formats are using in other
> well known tools, for example, Ansible [0]. This makes it non confusing,
> no risk of adding/forgetting a 's', etc.

Great idea: https://gitlab.com/BuildStream/buildstream/-/merge_requests/2075

Cheers,
    -Tristan