-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Sven Wegener wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:41:43PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > >>On Wednesday 06 July 2005 08:20 pm, Sven Wegener wrote: >> >>>We would like to introduce a new ebuild variable named EBUILD_FORMAT, >> >>seems like the name is much longer than it needs to be ... what's wrong with >>say 'EVER' ? > > > It's fine too. EBUILD_FORMAT was just the name that fell in > #gentoo-portage once we discussed about it. > > Sven >
EVER looks like the english word 'ever'; what does it stand for? EBUILD VERSION? If so, how about EVERSION? Since when was variable name length a problem? Go with whatever best describes the variable and is easy to figure out. Nathan -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCzH772QTTR4CNEQARAlimAJ0Yh80KpXqc0yZv6Gli+KqpWaKBxQCfU6pR 2WqrKs4MfY+RCgpoFxZKD8Q= =5nzV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list