From: Jon Portnoy <avenj@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:30:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040827013059.GA17966@cerberus.oppresses.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040827012221.GC3705@sympatico.ca>
On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:22:21PM -0400, purslow@sympatico.ca wrote:
> 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 ?
Do we really need to waste time and effort on something this trivial?
I think the solution is for everybody to deal with it, personally.
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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
2004-08-27 1:30 ` Jon Portnoy [this message]
2004-09-02 0:03 ` [gentoo-dev] vim syntaxy goodness for ebuilds, eclasses, GLEPs, ChangeLogs Ciaran McCreesh
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