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Dnia 2014-03-27, o godz. 09:40:47 |
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"Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o> napisał(a): |
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> The council will be meeing on April 8, 2014 at 1900 UTC. Please bring |
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> forward any agenda items you would like discussed. |
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Before we get into another revert war from patrick, I'd like to raise |
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the following item: |
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- use of ISO/IEC binary prefixes vs ambiguous 'mega' prefixes |
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Quick explanation: |
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ISO/IEC prefixes [1,2]: KiB (kibibyte), MiB (mebi-), GiB (gibi-) |
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-- unambiguously 2^10, 2^20, 2^30 |
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'old' prefixes: kB (kilobyte), MB (mega-), GB (giga-) |
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-- can mean 10^3 or 2^10 etc. depending on author's intention |
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-- SI people tend to use 10^N for consistency with other units |
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Major FLOSS projects have already started using binary prefixes: |
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the Linux kernel and GNU coreutils (e.g. df). They are used in e.g. |
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pacman as well, and I've submitted patches for portage already. |
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2.5yr ago scarabeus had updated check-reqs.eclass to use binary |
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prefixes [3] after a mailing list discussion. 1.5yr ago patrick changed |
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units back [4] without any discussion. Yesterday ulm (not knowing of |
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earlier revert) noticed the wrong names and fixed them again [5]. Today |
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patrick threatened already that he's going to revert the change. |
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Therefore, I'd like to have this discussed and voted through by Council |
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so that we could have a single front rather than a single developer |
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reverting changes randomly. |
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[1]:http://www.iec.ch/si/binary.htm |
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[2]:http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html |
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[3]:http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/check-reqs.eclass?r1=1.8&r2=1.9 |
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[4]:http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/check-reqs.eclass?r1=1.12&r2=1.13 |
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[5]:http://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/eclass/check-reqs.eclass?r1=1.13&r2=1.14 |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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