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 1Lc46Y-0002JE-9O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:42:14 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D79CBE05DE; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.157]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78881E05DE for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:42:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e12so150122fga.14 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:03 -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=klDFUYEZESMCT0UYPHLaNLvcMxz1tW0B0VwNpIFSBiE=; b=jtvniJiUBHoozbKKgcNzS7b6k280I8mdTEYj+x51W+X1a6uPm4L1kHaAY1netYNM5f X2lqvr+AKpA4EhIPmn4jhVP1AsfftgFAzQODJzZY6brZllentjTMQNVaCLLCEH8FDjas yG968dcSDBrDbnVzPAcB8RtbhV7EG1/lOB6Vo= 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=DiJjzaTd7pmlkYHlKknLu9HquVUUQUaxVM1UIOJhCe9riirBkg0V5GmxyqTD0fV85t wfKF49IBUXx/uNqKB4NfGaLDodMR+XqwjI7ceSMw0A6jR2Btw5Er6xwh+1CM55BehfKO 81U46W20EsWcCi6VWv3wVigOEX1Ha6Dq62KFQ= Received: by 10.86.73.1 with SMTP id v1mr22026fga.52.1235508123740; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:03 -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 g30sm20107582ugd.26.2009.02.24.12.42.02 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:42:03 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:41:54 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) Message-ID: <20090224204154.6fc34e4c@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20090224153736.71804732@vrm378-02.vrm378.am.mot.com> References: <1234257125.18160.2016.camel@localhost> <20090212171055.GA3652@comet> <20090212172109.778fb268@snowcone> <20090212173743.GD3652@comet> <20090212180350.0d9a9df5@snowcone> <1235037961.13198.779.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> <49A39CE7.4010201@gentoo.org> <49A3AAA1.6080207@gentoo.org> <49A3B947.2020907@gentoo.org> <49A3D0F6.6080307@gentoo.org> <49A41656.7020100@gentoo.org> <20090224155654.602f6c88@snowcone> <20090224122527.1e800f30@vrm378-02.vrm378.am.mot.com> <20090224182023.5d858986@snowcone> <20090224140845.73053f4c@vrm378-02.vrm378.am.mot.com> <20090224191928.6b9e52db@snowcone> <20090224150729.2c83596f@vrm378-02.vrm378.am.mot.com> <20090224201319.173144e6@snowcone> <20090224153736.71804732@vrm378-02.vrm378.am.mot.com> 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_/0Xu6Jq=Untx52QySgD9j8JQ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 444f0c52-be27-4d26-8364-58371a99c64a X-Archives-Hash: 0e1e8864445cdd37c932b99e1817cdd5 --Sig_/0Xu6Jq=Untx52QySgD9j8JQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:37:36 -0500 Jim Ramsay wrote: > > They only ended up nicely documented after people moaned a lot that > > they were having a hard time keeping track of EAPIs... >=20 > You can't possibly be suggesting that everyone will be able to keep an > ever-increasing number of feature sets in his or her mind, or that > changing from a two-level to a one-level EAPI definition will remove > the need for documentation going forward, so I'm not sure what you > mean by this. That's exactly what I mean. Developers can probably just about keep up with the two or three EAPIs they'll ever be working with on a regular basis, but they probably can't keep up with that if you double it. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/0Xu6Jq=Untx52QySgD9j8JQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmkW5UACgkQ96zL6DUtXhGG8ACeJAj1iWXb2DSfMwtiLqZVLlGI TkIAoKpGpTydeI1Vc67MAVLTP1un6n85 =VSRS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/0Xu6Jq=Untx52QySgD9j8JQ--