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From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 (why use filename extension?)
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:30:11
Message-Id: 1213169150.3970.158.camel@camobap
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 If you need eapi in file name what are the technical reasons of putting
2 it into file name extension? Why don't you suggest better ebuild name
3 like:
4
5 pkg-ver-eapi.ebuild or pkg-eapi-ver.ebuild ?
6
7 I remember last time I've asked this genone told me that this is not
8 backward compatible. Ok, it's not, but what's the problem to change
9 extension once only for this change? Call you new files like
10 pkg-ver-eapi.emerge and that's it! What is the need to change extension
11 every time you introduce new eapi? Another possibility is to implement
12 this new file format and wait another one year before using it instead
13 of crapping the tree for years with such eapi-extesions...
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16 Peter.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 (why use filename extension?) Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>