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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support
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On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:36 am, Kito wrote:
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Nathan L. Adams wrote:
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> > 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
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