Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed

2006-02-11 Thread Alin Nastac
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:14:26 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Interesting, yes... but ebuilds are read by humans and it is necessary | to be comprehensible a lot more than the Manifest files are. Sure. But the comparison would show whether or not it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed

2006-02-11 Thread John Mylchreest
On Sat, Feb 11, 2006 at 11:38:05AM +0200, Alin Nastac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When you have thousands of small files (1-4 blocks), the space saved by removing all unnecessary whitespaces is minimal at best. Minimizing the number of files is another story. Unifying manifests with digest files

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed (was: Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20060209))

2006-02-10 Thread solar
On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 22:39 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Thursday 09 February 2006 22:05, Ned Ludd wrote: I would like to see it drop the tab handling for indicating newlines and just use a real newlines when we want a newline. While having the tabs makes it easier for people to read

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed (was: Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20060209))

2006-02-10 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 03:17 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:05:35 -0500 Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The words AUXFILE EBUILD MISCFILE DISTFILE could be using shorter | names such as AUX EBD MSC DST like the existing vdb CONTENTS | files does for objects dirs and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed (was: Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20060209))

2006-02-10 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:14:26 -0500 Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 03:17 +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 22:05:35 -0500 Ned Ludd [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | The words AUXFILE EBUILD MISCFILE DISTFILE could be using shorter | | names such

[gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed (was: Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20060209))

2006-02-09 Thread Torsten Veller
* Aron Griffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Agenda: * GLEP 44 - Manifest2 format Outcome: * Council members were generally in agreement that GLEP 44 is a good idea, but without genone present to answer questions, the council was unwilling to approve or deny it. Postponed to next meeting,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed (was: Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20060209))

2006-02-09 Thread Ned Ludd
On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 00:21 +0100, Torsten Veller wrote: * Aron Griffis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Agenda: * GLEP 44 - Manifest2 format Outcome: * Council members were generally in agreement that GLEP 44 is a good idea, but without genone present to answer questions, the council was

Re: [gentoo-dev] Manifest2 decision delayed (was: Gentoo Council Meeting Summary (20060209))

2006-02-09 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 09 February 2006 22:05, Ned Ludd wrote: I would like to see it drop the tab handling for indicating newlines and just use a real newlines when we want a newline. While having the tabs makes it easier for people to read it increases the byte size and adds some undesired complexity