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 1NUBVn-000279-SF for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:04:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7BD0DE09B9 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2870AE0903 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:55:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (e179043211.adsl.alicedsl.de [85.179.43.211]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5672E1B4071 for ; Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:55:04 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B4AA116.9040005@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:55:02 +0100 From: Sebastian Pipping User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20100103 Thunderbird/3.0 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] PYTHON_DEPEND - Suggested replacement for NEED_PYTHON References: <201001100930.20355.Arfrever@gentoo.org> <4B4A1F73.7040603@gentoo.org> <201001102250.45410.Arfrever@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <201001102250.45410.Arfrever@gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e1c9bfd-7954-4414-9740-5aae711d8447 X-Archives-Hash: 77abb2522fa86ec31369a99f78c3c2e0 >>> PYTHON_DEPEND="2:2.5:2.6" >>> Dependency on Python 2.6 or 2.5. The colon (':') has two different semantics here. This violates "different things should look different". You are designing a language here. Please improve the proposal. Sebastian