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| From: | Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) | ||
| Date: | Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:30:05 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20090224162954.3661db53@snowcone | ||
| In Reply to: | Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) by Joe Peterson |
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| 1 | On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:24:48 -0700 |
| 2 | Joe Peterson <lavajoe@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | > Right. Plus, if the linker *did* consult the filename, imagine what |
| 4 | > would happen if someone renamed the file (even by accident) and |
| 5 | > changed the version? The parser should not be able to be so easily |
| 6 | > fooled - could cause great confusion and or nasty and weird bugs - |
| 7 | > seems very fragile to me. Having the version *in* the file is much |
| 8 | > safer, since monkeying with that would require editing it the file, |
| 9 | > rather than renaming it. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | You could use the same absurd argument to say that PN and PV shouldn't |
| 12 | be in the filename... |
| 13 | |
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| 15 | Ciaran McCreesh |
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