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On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:36 am, Kito wrote: |
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> On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Nathan L. Adams wrote: |
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> > Sven Wegener wrote: |
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> >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> >>> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote: |
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> >>>> We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named |
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> >>>> EBUILD_FORMAT, |
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> >>> |
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> >>> seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's |
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> >>> wrong with |
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> >>> say 'EVER' ? |
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> >> |
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> >> It's fine too. EBUILD_FORMAT was just the name that fell in |
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> >> #gentoo-portage once we discussed about it. |
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> >> |
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> >> Sven |
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> > |
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> > EVER looks like the english word 'ever'; what does it stand for? |
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> > EBUILD |
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> > VERSION? If so, how about EVERSION? Since when was variable name |
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> > length |
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> > a problem? Go with whatever best describes the variable and is easy to |
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> > figure out. |
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> Why not follow that logic through and use something like EBUILD_API ? |
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> the term VERSION implies release version which of course may not be |
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> tied to API changes... |
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hmm that sounds even better ... EAPI ? |
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-mike |
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