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 1QJAv1-0000Mq-BS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 08 May 2011 20:49:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6FDC01C01D; Sun, 8 May 2011 20:49:25 +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 396481C006 for ; Sun, 8 May 2011 20:48:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyi11 with SMTP id 11so4791327wyi.40 for ; Sun, 08 May 2011 13:48:50 -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=j51N/qFcvSK69TYRQHhzJS6Mdw4SUv6PjI2So5urqLo=; b=UowWCGIl/MeJfeX93vpI4CSIdoA3lJm0Hm8RSz7dBvSMxE8qOP3LZ1flr1lfIYFy3L /11Y5iszfy/WD2aIunS1zh2liifKxcWPdrEnqjSkOkvdN7sbQJkGu8Q7HUgivke4CXyD whz8cRiY1j45lYevIsUn+T9QKoGxOsYpIuIfE= 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=EJLmHYAgfMEJZ9T6G7+JFOkjH8NHw+yDqIEf226DtY810feWaOS6hhqpLEeqVC1bYg z9oyD6/lJIevdbUuqfSevMXHPf9+ixtgNlMPKKHKV+2Ub1RCpdrK4sQebKrBqcR/SJ9s MIiNwBA7d48Sgm501nLX7ctT+f8xO5rKYqu7k= Received: by 10.216.203.195 with SMTP id f45mr1891092weo.89.1304887729750; Sun, 08 May 2011 13:48:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lebrodyl.localnet (89-78-62-193.dynamic.chello.pl [89.78.62.193]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w12sm3348432wby.41.2011.05.08.13.48.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 08 May 2011 13:48:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Maciej Mrozowski To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] introspection use flag Date: Sun, 8 May 2011 22:48:39 +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> <201105062004.48810.reavertm@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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="nextPart2094567.S7VsMXFBO7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201105082248.40204.reavertm@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a868a35630bfedac8985e403a6641498 --nextPart2094567.S7VsMXFBO7 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Saturday 07 of May 2011 01:18:57 Nirbheek Chauhan wrote: > On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 11:34 PM, Maciej Mrozowski =20 wrote: > > On Friday 06 of May 2011 15:18:20 Marijn wrote: > >> And what happened to the proposed description: > >>=20 > >> introspection: Add gobject-introspection support, allowing for the > >> dynamic generation of bindings for various languages > >=20 > > No. > >=20 > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg40069.html >=20 > It's things like this that convinced us that there's no real advantage > in having it as a global use-flag. Maybe 3 years later when there is > *still* nothing else in the tree that uses "introspection" besides > gobject-introspection, we'll revisit this and finally make it a global > use-flag. Nirbheek... and what's particularly wrong with 'introspection' global USE f= lag=20 having implementation-agnostic "Enable runtime API introspection" descripti= on? Nobody sees anything wrong with overly vague 'xml' global USE flag and my=20 proposition isn't worse ('Add support for XML files' ... you mean what=20 support? import/export or just expat vs libxml2?) =2D-=20 regards MM --nextPart2094567.S7VsMXFBO7 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) iEYEABECAAYFAk3HAagACgkQFuHa/bHpVdsIggCgyDuAG7CHoTS3dVGswCctyMz+ OEEAn3ksnQoYSb0CVRsbm2tPvQocQ8uh =qAGx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2094567.S7VsMXFBO7--