On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 00:47 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:36 am, Kito wrote: > > On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:01 PM, Nathan L. Adams wrote: > > > -----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. > > > > Why not follow that logic through and use something like EBUILD_API ? > > the term VERSION implies release version which of course may not be > > tied to API changes... > > hmm that sounds even better ... EAPI ?
I would be in favor of EAPI= or an even shorter variable name. strlen(EBUILD_FORMAT) * 19546 = 249K strlen(EAPI) * 19546 = 77K strlen(EV) * 19546 = 39K Where 19546 is the number if ebuilds in the tree as. -- Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
