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On 6/21/10 8:53 AM, Arun Raghavan wrote: |
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> On 21 June 2010 11:43, Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote: |
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>>> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for |
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>>> the dynamic generation of bindings for various languages |
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>> why not naming the useflag gobject-introspection then ? |
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> Mostly because it seems exceedingly verbose to me (yes, I know we |
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> have longer USE flags, and I find them too long as well). |
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Please take a look at the devmanual, |
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http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/ |
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> In particular, note that if client and server USE flags are ever |
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> introduced, they can not be global USE flags for this reason. |
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I think that "introspection" is similarly too general. |
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So can we either rename it to "gobject-introspection", or find some |
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other way to handle it? |
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On the other hand, we already have "handbook" flag for KDE4. So the |
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above is not really a strong opinion, just a point to consider. |
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Paweł |