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 1OQU1N-0007Ac-Bl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:33:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 26171E0963; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:33:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gw0-f53.google.com (mail-gw0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CED8E093E for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 23:33:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gwj18 with SMTP id 18so629686gwj.40 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:33:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=iwjEebLChfcdF7e6AfEU3TBmxN9grm+kq04TnK73TvY=; b=DmTfUG+KYfaO1S7ZGi9FjYvPWUVnKOlZa+TdQZOQj7NZv4dH4JDPmfOg5soYuF6fyl vBZuWPRDas431OX7/Yd7bbpS+/b6XcYuBfmcLsQDJ11CEpuUnhfF22P1NFlSBdFQuE5T 9YIhxOnkaY5lZf5k0hTNHvYtAwOc1uBlBDjA4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=sI9Y1Mj8UHkupTfSe3A5c/NerygQqD3F5Xd9vA7OHLC5ExSSOi6mZmEpQCVqfivt6I 6uogL1pbfaQ3Uhg3siR2Ur8dcwRNLkDHgIDPSYswx6AzNCEl6RpB0ziMhaNTCISMlNgb q2cU0zMahzsc/Y4HI4fm/DnzRzCIENVcRjEGM= 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 Received: by 10.151.86.2 with SMTP id o2mr3750648ybl.318.1277076808161; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:33:28 -0700 (PDT) Sender: nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.216.20 with HTTP; Sun, 20 Jun 2010 16:33:28 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100620225510.GM12490@hrair> References: <1277064857.7004.1.camel@TesterBox.tester.ca> <20100620225510.GM12490@hrair> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 05:03:28 +0530 X-Google-Sender-Auth: di9eTONzivZQYnNQUcMp0ipo6Y8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection From: Nirbheek Chauhan To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 9505486b-c298-4d04-8081-4c9db6b3abe1 X-Archives-Hash: 787fc03d523557fbdb7526afb237b5cf On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Brian Harring wrote: > Beyond that, the naming kind of sucks from where I'm sitting- it's a > gobject/gnome specific flag in intention, but introspection has many > meanings elsewhere that may not map cleanly there. > Well, there's nothing else in this namespace (i.e., amongst use-flags) which uses this word, and I don't see anything else that would want to use it in-tree. So, I don't see what the problem is with us taking over it :) As for confusions w.r.t. name, the use-flag descriptions exist precisely to clarify that. I personally wouldn't assume a use-flag's intention before seeing it's corresponding description. Also note that perl/ruby/python/java/javascript etc bindings will be/are using gobject-introspection[1], so this particular usage of the term will become very prevalent in the near future. 1. http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/Users -- ~Nirbheek Chauhan Gentoo GNOME+Mozilla Team