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On K, 2009-06-03 at 23:11 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Wed, 3 Jun 2009, Piotr Jaroszynski wrote: |
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> > on/after the last council meeting the biggest problem with g54 |
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> > seemed to be whether to use scm or live suffix. I would like to do a |
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> > small poll here among council members so that I can edit the glep |
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> > accordingly. So, could you please state whether you prefer scm or |
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> > live? |
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> I prefer "_live" for various reasons: |
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> - Almost everybody calls them "live ebuilds" not "scm ebuilds" |
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> - There may be live ebuilds not related to source code management |
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> (app-portage/eclass-manpages might be an example), and ebuilds |
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> fetching their sources from a fixed tag in an SCM system, therefore |
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> not being live. |
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> - No confusion with the Scheme language. |
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> Ulrich |
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I prefer "live" for the same reasons above "scm" in any contexts |
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relating to ebuilds. |
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This vote (of mine) is not to be taken as an endorsement of g54 of |
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course, as I take it as a terminology preference question. |
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Mart Raudsepp |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: leio@g.o |
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Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio |
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