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From: James Cloos <cloos@×××××××.com>
To: mgorny@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass, git-2.eclass... git-r1.eclass?
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:59:42
Message-Id: m34na4qbt3.fsf@carbon.jhcloos.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass, git-2.eclass... git-r1.eclass? by Tom Wijsman
1 >>>>> "TW" == Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> writes:
2
3 TW> Also, please just call it git-3.eclass as it is a major change; any
4 TW> other form of naming will introduce confusion (eg. -r1 < -2), also we
5 TW> probably shouldn't change git-2.eclass as even when masked it doesn't
6 TW> seem like a good thing to break its current API and documentation as
7 TW> well as what actually works in the Portage tree.
8
9 +1 on all of that. git-3 is a better name than using -r1.
10
11 And leave git-2 there for at /least/ a year. There are a LOT of out of
12 tree git-2 users.
13
14 -JimC
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