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On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:35:59 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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| On Thursday 22 February 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 04:04:37 +0000 Steve Long |
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| > <slong@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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| > | > I'm saying that until there is an independent implementation, |
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| > | > the specification is worthless and will contain huge numbers of |
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| > | > errors. |
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| > | Seriously? Without an implementation, your spec of what should |
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| > | happen will have loads of errors? |
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| > Yes. It will describe what people think is allowed, rather than what |
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| > really is. Perfect example -- we'd never have caught the multiple |
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| > sourcing issue without an independent implementation. |
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| I'm sorry, but this was already a known issue over 3 years ago. And |
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| yes, the way portage handles ebuilds does not necessarilly win any |
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| beauty contest. |
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Which isn't relevant to what I said. Had it not been for the |
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independent implementation, it would have remained "something that's |
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been known to be weird for years", and would not have been documented |
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or specified either way. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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