From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lc0AX-0002NN-Eo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:30:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE17CE03B3; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com (qw-out-1920.google.com [74.125.92.146]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0CE9E03B3 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:30:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 9so998669qwj.10 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:30:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type; bh=lB588GeRqXIcZAu+pkZ5EOSClLiG0gnUlpaeFc0TUj4=; b=I+6rIaTI4AoWZHkB55W/0jFzXljOdwk586psNXqGRwoIJQActE3MS2qcaiwaebwnrD etRuB1hggy+PPkVkCIFF2RStp545kciFl4fJzov2Eu0GJjkhAFVRFV+FdRsU0uS8zvdo CbLPUK6TX6PV12nrU9tOfXBqUBP8rGUeCXR8k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type; b=JyLiwXkp07c4kf97onWMpcq479ym6OTH84js250FCyCtyaFa3JHE2J87L2COS9CgL9 T2DdgkHiong5RP5y+DE4QGfzYlKFInDRT4a/M1TDHr44AJv3gt4wRVVDZgrcJ1xc84rC f/Yc+4wWgYv3546ywAQxIT/nYo1FsvYSX9xeY= Received: by 10.224.67.76 with SMTP id q12mr8301854qai.279.1235493002462; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:30:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from snowcone (92-235-187-79.cable.ubr18.sgyl.blueyonder.co.uk [92.235.187.79]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y6sm9195996uge.30.2009.02.24.08.30.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:30:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:29:54 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) Message-ID: <20090224162954.3661db53@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <49A41F50.2060500@gentoo.org> References: <1234257125.18160.2016.camel@localhost> <20090219125124.33eaa66c@snowcone> <1235077892.13198.1923.camel@localhost> <20090222171658.278ae167@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <49A1E1CB.1000806@gentoo.org> <20090222234800.29d64b8d@snowcone> <49A206A7.3050604@gentoo.org> <1235378286.31617.6.camel@neuromancer.neuronics-tp.ch> <49A26B84.7040006@gentoo.org> <1235383347.12908.0.camel@neuromancer.neuronics-tp.ch> <49A2B276.1000109@gentoo.org> <49A2C40D.3060601@gentoo.org> <20090223132202.1cd1337e@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca> <49A3357B.1030403@gentoo.org> <49A41F50.2060500@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/w=0_8HLaHYU4Z.29855zA/p"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2e4499f3-f4cf-4beb-bc6c-9aad199bd113 X-Archives-Hash: e663e18c12ef1e2e71b420f0809a376a --Sig_/w=0_8HLaHYU4Z.29855zA/p Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:24:48 -0700 Joe Peterson wrote: > Right. Plus, if the linker *did* consult the filename, imagine what > would happen if someone renamed the file (even by accident) and > changed the version? The parser should not be able to be so easily > fooled - could cause great confusion and or nasty and weird bugs - > seems very fragile to me. Having the version *in* the file is much > safer, since monkeying with that would require editing it the file, > rather than renaming it. You could use the same absurd argument to say that PN and PV shouldn't be in the filename... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/w=0_8HLaHYU4Z.29855zA/p Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmkIIUACgkQ96zL6DUtXhG9nQCgyJUQUsnysx3b48NgOUJqh4Wo /kkAmwZsEpe/39p4/U8+yBwH7cSZbbSd =Joun -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/w=0_8HLaHYU4Z.29855zA/p--