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 1ORHC8-0000kR-2r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:04:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 579E0E0996; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:04:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCDEE0A41 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:03:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws11 with SMTP id 11so323508vws.40 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:03:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:from:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id :subject:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PALkJDT7LsCCnJBmdMpq6W+SWItc5zU9aeaftSbp+Ew=; b=B5sfP7Z/YRqrIeaTVo/1EhBTjF3qryiK2mCSzLDTCYAdhjd3Tw1M7WJkzgLS8V+J8P r5i4Ollb/wE1JVs0NwxVjXeRYLEKu5/A6hHu+os/8cy8INSRGCZazxe8b3manXubKE5W zsawPHbH/6gySOEXjRb/uEz4EmbbiG7IrU3kg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=JdlzzWHrohjPDQzaD86Cw5gLOD2qeP+I117+dPTypuwMp6Bu1O+R1h9czWhzMRghKU cE9S3zfWVOZl/6cKkLbIIqwUPi8eLycAOFK798pbVgx0TSx06YKiEYe+KtNHetDJQ5R8 D/HhNln+sD3l+1jkrpnVmm8F4CXxvt7k1XXHk= Received: by 10.220.88.35 with SMTP id y35mr3717827vcl.98.1277265817099; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:03:37 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: arunissatan@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.203.70 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:03:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C211A40.6070001@gentoo.org> References: <201006210933.57444.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277130128.7004.43.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <201006211744.38483.reavertm@gmail.com> <1277205855.29893.1.camel@lillen> <4C20E5DD.7020400@gentoo.org> <4C211A40.6070001@gentoo.org> From: Arun Raghavan Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:33:17 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: eX43A_YIg6zmf0wjvAvIy8lx-M4 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e44e1dc7-4005-4d15-920f-834290000dd0 X-Archives-Hash: d6b99ff148fdb46f003a362b2fea9b10 On 23 June 2010 01:47, Mike Auty 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)