From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqVPe-0001Xc-Iw for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 12:23:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j67CLOKn029967; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:21:24 GMT Received: from skinny.southernlinux.net (ns2.rednecks.net [64.192.52.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j67CInjK028509 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 12:18:49 GMT Received: (qmail 18691 invoked by uid 210); 7 Jul 2005 08:18:31 -0400 Received: from 10.10.10.188 by skinny (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.82/970. f-prot: 4.4.2/3.14.11. spamassassin: 3.0.2. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:1(10.10.10.188):. Processed in 0.057765 secs); 07 Jul 2005 12:18:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.188?) (10.10.10.188) by 0 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 08:18:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support From: Ned Ludd To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200507070047.35274.vapier@gentoo.org> References: <20050707002002.GH20687@lightning.stealer.net> <42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.org> <88F6D0D3-99A2-4C37-A233-D34EFB1EE5F3@gentoo.org> <200507070047.35274.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 08:19:49 -0400 Message-Id: <1120738789.1972.0.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8a07906d-0436-4a30-b3f0-e4a343f4c4aa X-Archives-Hash: 9f4c4ac5439a16fca3fda6b9e399160a 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: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > > > 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. -- Ned Ludd -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list