From: Joe Peterson <lavajoe@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Reinstating eclasses
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:19:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4910A026.1080504@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081104131525.6821d0ed@halo.dirtyepic.sk.ca>
Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:43:55 -0500
> Joe Peterson <lavajoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> Christoph Mende wrote:
>>> Now the most logical name for an eclass like that
>>> would be xfce4.eclass, except that eclass already exists.
>> Since the new eclass is not version specific, how about simply
>> "xfce.eclass"?
>
> why bother introducing yet another xfce*.eclass when you can re-use an
> existing one?
Well, my thought (without knowing xfce details, albeit) if the eclass is now
not tied to version, having one with no version info in the name might serve
future xfce versions (5, 6, 7...) as well without requiring yet another name
change.
-Joe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-04 16:43 [gentoo-dev] Reinstating eclasses Christoph Mende
2008-11-04 17:35 ` Zac Medico
2008-11-04 18:22 ` Petteri Räty
2008-11-04 18:30 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-04 18:43 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-04 19:15 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-11-04 19:19 ` Joe Peterson [this message]
2008-11-04 19:23 ` Christoph Mende
2008-11-04 19:30 ` Joe Peterson
2008-11-04 23:30 ` Duncan
2008-11-05 16:19 ` Steve Long
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