From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc5VP-0000KE-0M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:11:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 854AAE064A; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.142]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61FB8E064A for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [62.3.120.141] (helo=spike) by smarthost03.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc5VK-0000Vv-JT for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:11:54 +0000 Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:11:47 +0000 From: Roy Bamford Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20090224164812.3795d777@snowcone> <1235510283.3839.4@spike> <20090224212304.56aaf04e@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20090224212304.56aaf04e@snowcone> (from ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com on Tue Feb 24 21:23:04 2009) X-Mailer: Balsa 2.3.28 Message-Id: <1235513513.3839.5@spike> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Originating-Smarthost03-IP: [62.3.120.141] X-Archives-Salt: 2086a81f-3c16-44b1-8049-f23d253b2157 X-Archives-Hash: fde9b7706683a7757f40f77a843ef2af -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2009.02.24 21:23, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:17:57 +0000 > Roy Bamford wrote: > > > PN and PV are metadata, same as EAPI. > > > > So we made a mistake with PN and PV and may compound it with EAPI. > > How long before we *must* have other pieces of information in the=20 > > filename? >=20 > Uh, never. >=20 > > When will the filename get so long as to become unwhieldy ? >=20 > Uh, never. >=20 [snip] > Except that once we have EAPI in the file extension, we can change > anything we want in arbitrary ways without having to worry about > backwards compatibility, so we won't need silly hacks. >=20 > --=20 > Ciaran McCreesh >=20 Ciaran, Your response amounts to empty assertions. Never is a long time. It reminds me of a similar assertion that "640kB [of RAM] will be=20 enough for anyone". - --=20 Regards, Roy Bamford (NeddySeagoon) a member of gentoo-ops forum-mods treecleaners trustees -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmkcKkACgkQTE4/y7nJvaujMwCdES699P2BXc6VBRKfG4S9As4o CakAnAp8tsStf1NfKp1AEsGAQC8yxuoE =3DzCeb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----