On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 19:50:36 +0100 Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > GLEP 55 is simple, it solves all the problems we have (including the > > version issue, which everyone is conveniently ignoring), it doesn't > > require us to guess what's going to happen next and it can be > > implemented immediately. That's a rather big deal. > > The "header comment" solution solves all these issues too, without > embedding unrelated information in the filename [1].
No it doesn't. See the "conveniently ignoring" part you're conveniently ignoring. > It can be implemented immediately, too. No it can't, since existing package managers don't handle it. > The argument that was always used against such solutions was that > it would "hurt performance". However, when the council asked for > benchmarks that would prove that point, nobody could provide them. No, the argument was that such solutions didn't solve the full problem. Performance issues were secondary, and were picked up upon as a way of avoiding the whole "nothing else solves all the problems" thing. > [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filename> "The filename is metadata > about a file; a string used to uniquely identify a file stored on the > file system." By that argument, there's no point in having a ".ebuild" there either. Please don't continue the bad trend of posting irrelevant Wikipedia links as footnotes as though the primary issue should be anything other than a comparison of solutions to a technical problem [1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork -- Ciaran McCreesh
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