Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 (why use filename extension?)

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Volkov
If you need eapi in file name what are the technical reasons of putting it into file name extension? Why don't you suggest better ebuild name like: pkg-ver-eapi.ebuild or pkg-eapi-ver.ebuild ? I remember last time I've asked this genone told me that this is not backward compatible. Ok, it's not,

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 (why use filename extension?)

2008-06-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:25:50 +0400 Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you need eapi in file name what are the technical reasons of putting it into file name extension? Why don't you suggest better ebuild name like: pkg-ver-eapi.ebuild or pkg-eapi-ver.ebuild ? a) breaks current package

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 (why use filename extension?)

2008-06-11 Thread Peter Volkov
В Срд, 11/06/2008 в 08:34 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh пишет: On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:25:50 +0400 Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you need eapi in file name what are the technical reasons of putting it into file name extension? Why don't you suggest better ebuild name like:

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 55 (why use filename extension?)

2008-06-11 Thread Joe Peterson
Peter Volkov wrote: Well for me .ebuild-eapi is much more confusing. I still don't see why it's impossible to have eapi as a part of name but not in extension... Although putting EAPI in the name and not the extension is *slightly* preferable to using the extension, I still do not think that