From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Inyys-0003VX-ES for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:02:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with SMTP id lA2G0eLI007989; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:00:40 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.1/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lA2FwPBJ003446 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:58:26 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C04664D3B for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:58:25 +0000 (UTC) From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] More general interface to use flags Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:58:23 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <472B29B9.50002@gentoo.org> <200711021138.04061.vapier@gentoo.org> <1194018527.10346.6.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl> In-Reply-To: <1194018527.10346.6.camel@uberlaptop.development.ltl> 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; boundary="nextPart8181855.l6ocJYubWQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200711021158.24188.vapier@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: e085bf14-6870-406b-80ba-fc37bdf4dc8c X-Archives-Hash: d0ed224c3a0b7150326e74477884c198 --nextPart8181855.l6ocJYubWQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Friday 02 November 2007, Roy Marples wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 11:38 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > wrong. the point of the discussion on the gentoo dev mailing list is to > > go over the exported API for *ebuilds*, not for the implementation. the > > implementation is already baked and really, Marijn shouldnt have sent it > > to the gentoo dev mailing list in the first place. your pointless POSIX > > conversions have no place in the discussion. > > However, I notice that you have no problem discussing the implementation > of ebuild commits or are they special in some way? that's because the point of said discussions *is about the implementation*.= =20 this thread is not about the implementation, but about the API. besides, i= 'd=20 give you the same answer there when you attempt to get people to change=20 perfectly valid (and preferred) code structures. > My POSIX conversations encourage the use of POSIX over non portable bash > as that's something I try and encourage. And that is very pertinent to > -dev. and the answer is still the same. POSIX conversions are irrelevant until y= ou=20 can propose solutions for the things bash can do but POSIX cannot. you can= =20 only provide workarounds or hacks, so any further attempt on the topic is=20 half way conversions that lead to ugly inconsistencies. =2Dmike --nextPart8181855.l6ocJYubWQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQIVAwUARytJIEFjO5/oN/WBAQKyrg//W2x4jXkiAyBqL+gqvpmV2Q6GZL2voCjY ZdXFYY0nbuVtP0Z2y7OHxwypUT6o3jMMjq9koS5eU9FSV5aia76iay/jd+zNL5bR AvG8cFYRbsoErIoNtqjnsGyyNyX/GBXzcoytx5TJn0Wuh2iS2BpPr5gAxGZSgdt0 8oLpraGJ7vxUjHnF8kwfWjV4aOmWnDFDtj1q48+4fjWUFnw3yRWyoahnqUomOon1 ll6cWSrG/bDEn6+08SbAvTKSHKsPBmKkY9BIFWxOk7WcMjd0X1Nf7GQJffJsUvlo qU1k9OK5cx480NIiSBX0Y7eIiDqw93x5SneR64YDaxYBUz4OME067sEGyp5Z/eOM I53OVJi2r3P6h6CpLxu2SL+lskbA4Di9+NZdEVKOjelBIMwiVAbK0P8hY+mpeKEB eDJzeKVoY5wJsLF2UAhVNgVF+wPOOYRDfihY9YQwEkhcaTiv9T0jGcsy3Ibik6NC 3twGTHj4vCFtLTW0X7uRsdhY4qeO+80h1gXx8KtcroE2aT5pcyKGsOJCjf91TMLp nddUVVV4658ictSyRNTc6iLgQlLOb771anXSyI54pBU+ldezqxL+nbpN4V1QT8QJ o1puYaG3hUZWwi2p0auzryqJcZwu5g5YWHGybR/ACbD8OjF+H/LEoBBlhKS9fSQl mZ9ubJfDu74= =dkCp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8181855.l6ocJYubWQ-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list