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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 18:51:23
Message-Id: 20318.17788.250811.141624@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > GLEP 55 is simple, it solves all the problems we have (including the
3 > version issue, which everyone is conveniently ignoring), it doesn't
4 > require us to guess what's going to happen next and it can be
5 > implemented immediately. That's a rather big deal.
6
7 The "header comment" solution solves all these issues too, without
8 embedding unrelated information in the filename [1]. It can be
9 implemented immediately, too.
10
11 The argument that was always used against such solutions was that
12 it would "hurt performance". However, when the council asked for
13 benchmarks that would prove that point, nobody could provide them.
14
15 Ulrich
16
17 [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename> "The filename is metadata
18 about a file; a string used to uniquely identify a file stored on the
19 file system."

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>