On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Phil, > > Am 08.03.2011 um 18:29 schrieb Philip Brown: >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Dagobert Michelsen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I would like to introduce a new flag "x" in addition to >>> the "p" (patched) flag. It should mean that the packages >>> is "64 bit compatible", whatever that means: >>> ... >>> Thoughts? >> >> Hmm. 2 thoughts: >> >> 1. that may be confused with "x86" > > Because it is an "x"? If it is documented this should be no problem.
A general-case comment: Documenting something that is counter-intuitive, does not make it not a problem any more. specific case comment: its not in either the catalog name or the pkg name directly. So a maintainer would have to do extra checking to find out this flaw. you indicate that not having 64bit support would be the rare case. As such, we might add a hint to the description, for the rare case. pm_blah - CPAN::blah::blah something here (32bit) _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
