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 1DqOK8-0001EN-8F for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:49:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j674leba004508; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 04:47:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j674k00a014511 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 04:46:01 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqOHr-0002ZV-3x for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 04:46:59 +0000 Received: (qmail 12563 invoked from network); 7 Jul 2005 00:43:16 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 7 Jul 2005 00:43:16 -0400 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 00:47:35 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <20050707002002.GH20687@lightning.stealer.net> <42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.org> <88F6D0D3-99A2-4C37-A233-D34EFB1EE5F3@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <88F6D0D3-99A2-4C37-A233-D34EFB1EE5F3@gentoo.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507070047.35274.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 15f76ff4-cde9-4738-b403-bd954329d534 X-Archives-Hash: 39d536d55652b5bff8fd12f6734dfd91 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 ? -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list