On Wednesday, August 04, 2010 08:22:23 Jeremy Olexa wrote: > On 08/04/2010 03:05 AM, Peter Volkov wrote: > > В Втр, 03/08/2010 в 17:12 -0500, Jeremy Olexa пишет: > >> On Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:22:47 +0000 (UTC), "Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar > >> > >> Arahesis (arfrever)"<[email protected]> wrote: > >>> <snip> > >>> SRC_URI="http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/${MY_PN:0:1}/${MY_PN}/$ > >>> {MY_P}.tar.gz" <snip> > >> > >> This is a perfect example of "over-complexification" - Why didn't you > >> just use "D" instead of "${MY_PN:0:1}" ? > > > > Just take a look at pypi.python.org repository structure. This URL can > > be copy&pasted from one package into another package from the same > > repository without any changes... > > You can't copy/paste MY_PN, so while you are changing that, is it that > hard to change *one* more character? Of the 290 ebuilds that use pypi, > 172 of them use MY_PN. 83 use ${PN:0:1} for which your argument holds > some water. As I said in the original message, I think we should strive > for user friendly-ness but I guess I might be alone in that opinion. =/
i'm inclined to agree with you in general, but not in this particular case. as the upstream repo is pretty well structured, and hosts many ebuild sources for us, i'd go with Peter as i'm a fan of ebuilds that work when simply renamed. -mike
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