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From: Arun Raghavan <ford_prefect@gentoo.org>
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On 23 June 2010 01:47, Mike Auty <ikelos@gentoo.org> wrote:
[...]
>> Which should not be an issue since any library that has some sort of
>> introspection can use this flag (and the use.desc can be changed
>> appropriately at that time if it does not use gobject-introspection).
>
> Why have to change it in the future (and probably split it into two
> flags then), when the choice hasn't been made yet? =A0Or, to put your own
> question to you, why are you vehemently for "introspection" when others
> have shown concern with the choice? =A0As far as I can see, the only
> difference is requiring a slightly longer use_enable line.

Mostly because I don't want to coin a new term if it's not absolutely neces=
sary.

That said, you're right - more people seem to be comfortable with
"gintrospection" than plain "introspection". If no further objections
arise, we'll go with "gintrospection".

Thanks,
--=20
Arun Raghavan
http://arunraghavan.net/
(Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)