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From: purslow@sympatico.ca
To: Gentoo Devt <gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:22:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827012221.GC3705@sympatico.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040826233657.1a98b3f4@snowdrop.home>

040826 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 18:19:02 -0400 purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
>> 'licence' is not a mistake: it is the way non-Americans spell 'license'.
>> in fact, the English distinguish 'licence' (noun) from 'license' (verb).
>> Canadians follow English usage when they think about it
>> & American when they don't ... (smile)
> Well that's the point. I speak Real English (TM),
> so I keep on screwing up the LICENSE variable by spelling it correctly.
> In the context of an ebuild, using the non-USian spelling *is* a mistake.

yes, so isn't the solution to have ebuilds recognise both spellings ?
Gentoo is an international project, not like M$ etc .
gentle suggestion to developers ?  bug report ?

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-27  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-20 19:51 [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-26 18:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-26 22:19   ` purslow
2004-08-26 22:36     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2004-08-27  1:22       ` purslow [this message]
2004-08-27  1:30         ` Jon Portnoy
2004-09-02  0:03   ` [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs, ChangeLogs Ciaran McCreesh

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