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 1DqKvi-0002ct-Nt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:11:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j671AJSN013930; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 01:10:19 GMT Received: from smtp1.stealer.net (smtp1.stealer.net [82.165.37.24]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6718dJT026013 for ; Thu, 7 Jul 2005 01:08:39 GMT Received: from sven by smtp1.stealer.net with local for authenticated user sven id 1DqKtV-0007Wm-0V for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org from sender sven@smtp1.stealer.net; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 01:09:37 +0000 Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 03:09:36 +0200 From: Sven Wegener To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EBUILD_FORMAT support Message-ID: <20050707010936.GK20687@lightning.stealer.net> References: <20050707002002.GH20687@lightning.stealer.net> <200507062041.43423.vapier@gentoo.org> <20050707004906.GJ20687@lightning.stealer.net> <42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.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: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4Djgzn3z2HSNnx0" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42CC7EFB.2020308@ieee.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 8b0e97dd-fb68-4d61-9f77-59903616485f X-Archives-Hash: 542bf1d40f69e98109029d7629ad4dbc --T4Djgzn3z2HSNnx0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:01:47PM -0400, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > 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. Yes, ebuild version. For me all that starts with E (in combination with Gentoo) is separated in my mind between E and the remaining part. Like: - ebuild =3D=3D e-build - emerge =3D=3D e-merge And EVER automatically was E-VER for me, never had the idea to read it as ever. Does that count as being addicted to Gentoo? Sven --=20 Sven Wegener Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ --T4Djgzn3z2HSNnx0 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCzIDQAXomK8S72HoRAgJ4AJwPLC/JKgrxynvVfs74oOe7aKQbqQCfdyPG XZIUrzpwQBZiqqhtCAvsC5c= =SLVW -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4Djgzn3z2HSNnx0-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list