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 ? -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
