From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QIPPP-0005MA-JN for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 06 May 2011 18:05:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7CCA51C072; Fri, 6 May 2011 18:05:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C4C1C05B for ; Fri, 6 May 2011 18:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so3503184wyi.40 for ; Fri, 06 May 2011 11:04:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:disposition-notification-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=7pX5eo0IyU8M/8Rt4tN7sRmZN2ht/RLFdwpQyvKh1o4=; b=XNSY+yqhNqZxAxDBjLHREzeOoqIJ1/bRjkpE1Y+U7UyejCMh6lFlTH+QwdU5sdt4zs atDWEjRAd5kT/NReyC5TuZ9ZCCAaUqoUZ1b2l4Wb3DD6ulGyxNBkIBM4Bdf5OnY+la3f qKXkSE2vy3HusJSNZwtgG9x6jXF6AGUAKpKVU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :disposition-notification-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=B58v7tJQ7SFSdpX9TJPMNLeCQrQXZe2CqfgQb1ut7FEUYUYQokxvN4Sua4ajymz9aD 4VMRl8M106qRGA4JYO7VFLBQuZgi3UjQcmLv3AMx47pMMfEi0YW1yCTloGQx+v8rnGEd PuWD+lstPlBRHLrYZ5j7Nbf+b26x/cfoP33gc= Received: by 10.216.136.67 with SMTP id v45mr7818403wei.106.1304705098320; Fri, 06 May 2011 11:04:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lebrodyl.localnet (89-78-62-193.dynamic.chello.pl [89.78.62.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n52sm1750224wer.24.2011.05.06.11.04.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 06 May 2011 11:04:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Maciej Mrozowski To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 20:04:48 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-rc5-wl-compat; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <4DC3B407.50901@gentoo.org> <1304684738.4741.4.camel@gdartigu.lan.rep.sj> <4DC3F51C.5070406@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4DC3F51C.5070406@gentoo.org> 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="nextPart22909926.bSq0eRz4Sy"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105062004.48810.reavertm@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 32ea8a3fa7d0a3844975d3ec4ddcfeb8 --nextPart22909926.bSq0eRz4Sy Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Friday 06 of May 2011 15:18:20 Marijn wrote: > On 05/06/11 14:25, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: > > Le vendredi 06 mai 2011 =C3=A0 10:40 +0200, Marijn a =C3=A9crit : > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >>=20 > >> Dear all, > >>=20 > >> I was just looking into the meaning of the introspection use-flag and > >> there are many ebuilds that use it so perhaps it should be globalized, > >> which would also give us a chance to improve the naming/description. > >> Current descriptions are: > >>=20 > >> Use dev-libs/gobject-introspection for introspection > >> Enable GObject introspection. > >>=20 > >> Currently it is hard to tell which functionality is enabled through th= is > >> flag and the meaning of the descriptions for when the flag is off are > >> even more unclear. Does it mean that introspection will not be used or > >> will some other way of introspection be used? Either way, perhaps the > >> people in the know could shed some light on this issue? > >>=20 > >> Thanks, > >>=20 > >> Marijn > >=20 > > See original thread on this mailing list: > >=20 > > From: Arun Raghavan > > Subject: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection > > Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:12:58 +0530 (20/06/2010 16:42:58) > > Message-ID: > > >=20 > Thanks for the pointer![1] Having just read that discussion it seems > that even back then many developers found that the name "introspection" > is too broad/imprecise. Several alternatives were proposed, like > gintrospection, gobject-introspection, gir, api-introspection. I think > any of these would have been better than the current name. >=20 > And what happened to the proposed description: >=20 > introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the > dynamic generation of bindings for various languages No. http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg40069.html > which at least contains a hint of what the purpose is of this flag? But > maybe someone can do even better than that now that this technology has > been in use for a while? >=20 > Marijn >=20 > [1]:http://marc.info/?l=3Dgentoo-dev&m=3D127704501818312&w=3D2 =2D-=20 regards MM --nextPart22909926.bSq0eRz4Sy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk3EOEAACgkQFuHa/bHpVdtNJQCfZ6z2f53E9WCpN6wJ3qSI1Yj7 LE4Ani9oouxV5VdI6JBXmYqOv5K0pTZB =JbQP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart22909926.bSq0eRz4Sy--