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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 07:50:36PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > GLEP 55 is simple, it solves all the problems we have (including the |
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> > version issue, which everyone is conveniently ignoring), it doesn't |
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> > require us to guess what's going to happen next and it can be |
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> > implemented immediately. That's a rather big deal. |
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> The "header comment" solution solves all these issues too, without |
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> embedding unrelated information in the filename [1]. It can be |
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> implemented immediately, too. |
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> The argument that was always used against such solutions was that |
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> it would "hurt performance". However, when the council asked for |
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> benchmarks that would prove that point, nobody could provide them. |
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Just a note... it's effectively background noise if implemented even |
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halfway sanely, and that's clocking it from w/in pkgcore; for portage, |
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it will be purely in the noise. |
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That's not to say it's *efficient*- it's just not a real world |
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performance concern. |
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~brian |