Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support

[Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:36 am, Kito wrote:
> > On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
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> > > Sven Wegener wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > >>> On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote:
> > >>>> We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named
> > >>>> EBUILD_FORMAT,
> > >>>
> > >>> seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's
> > >>> wrong with
> > >>> say 'EVER' ?
> > >>
> > >> It's fine too. EBUILD_FORMAT was just the name that fell in
> > >> #gentoo-portage once we discussed about it.
> > >>
> > >> Sven
> > >
> > > EVER looks like the english word 'ever'; what does it stand for?
> > > EBUILD
> > > VERSION? If so, how about EVERSION? Since when was variable name
> > > length
> > > a problem? Go with whatever best describes the variable and is easy to
> > > figure out.
> >
> > Why not follow that logic through and use something like EBUILD_API ?
> > the term VERSION implies release version which of course may not be
> > tied to API changes...
> 
> hmm that sounds even better ... EAPI ?

I would be in favor of EAPI= or an even shorter variable name.

strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K
strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K
strlen(EV) *  19546 = 39K

Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as.

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Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>

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