Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Harald van Dijk
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:24:33PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: On Friday 16 March 2007, Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog) wrote: Just a note to this. I'm co-maintainer of netbeans ebuild. Netbeans does milestone releases. These are pretty stable and usable since milestone 7 of netbeans 6.0 with

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
Rather then analyze the proposed solution, I'd like to question the problem itself. Do we really want to provide all the different intermediate development sort of releases in our tree? William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: After reviewing

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 01:08 -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: Rather then analyze the proposed solution, I'd like to question the problem itself. Do we really want to provide all the different intermediate development sort of releases in our tree? That came up in the link I provided in

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules it seems to me the versioning is focused on package stability life cycle. In netbeans case it is _prealpha and definitely not stable patched release. So

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh
William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: IMHO I think it should be up to the package maintainer how close they want to follow upstream. With regard to development, progress, testing, qa, feedback. I think it's a very good thing, since it allows things to be caught before actual releases, during

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Jakub Moc
Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog) napsal(a): According to http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules it seems to me the versioning is focused on package stability life cycle. In netbeans case it is _prealpha and definitely not stable patched release. So _alpha

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marius Mauch wrote: On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:25:17 -0400 William L. Thomson Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hierarchy would be the following snapshot - dev - build - alpha - beta And that's where the problems start. As you said yourself

[gentoo-dev] gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Dibb
Any objections to globalizing the 'gs' use flag on support for ghostscript? $ euse -i gs global use flags (searching: gs) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: gs)

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jakub Moc napsal(a): Miroslav Šulc (fordfrog) napsal(a): According to http://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/file-format/index.html#file-naming-rules it seems to me the versioning is focused on package stability life cycle. In netbeans case

Re: [gentoo-dev] gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Saturday 17 of March 2007 12:28:42 Steve Dibb wrote: Any objections to globalizing the 'gs' use flag on support for ghostscript? I have heard about the magic limit of 5, but whatever... -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:46:22 +0100 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing we could do would be to separate hierarchy from version naming. That was one of Zynot's goals. You might want to investigate how they ended up solving it. -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Samstag, 17. März 2007, Jakub Moc wrote: Actually stuff like cat/pkg-1.2_alpha3_pre4 is valid now and honored by portage; dunno how does that fit the netbeans upstream scheme, though. The additional postfix is reserved exclusively for user local ebuilds, not for the ones provided by us.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Petteri Räty
Carsten Lohrke kirjoitti: On Samstag, 17. März 2007, Jakub Moc wrote: Actually stuff like cat/pkg-1.2_alpha3_pre4 is valid now and honored by portage; dunno how does that fit the netbeans upstream scheme, though. The additional postfix is reserved exclusively for user local ebuilds, not

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Carsten Lohrke
This is a valid argument for a single postfix with a lower order than alpha, but not a reason to add everything what's out there. I don't see the need to match upstream's versioning bit by bit. Honestly said I've never understood why our order is alpha, beta, pre and not pre, alpha, beta, which

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Samstag, 17. März 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: IMHO I think it should be up to the package maintainer how close they want to follow upstream. With regard to development, progress, testing, qa, feedback. I think it's a very good thing, since it allows things to be caught before actual

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Carsten Lohrke
Well that's the problem. When I use say _pre instead of _dev it gives off the wrong impression to users judging package by it's name. Since it's not a pre-release. A user may go upstream looking for some sort of pre-release. Which they won't find. We have stable, testing and masked ebuilds.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Jakub Moc
Carsten Lohrke napsal(a): The additional postfix is reserved exclusively for user local ebuilds, not for the ones provided by us. Such as media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.14_rc2_p3234 ? :) Anyway, if you have better ideas, move them to Bug 166522; multiple suffixes are definitely needed, just

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:06:07 +0200 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carsten Lohrke kirjoitti: On Samstag, 17. März 2007, Jakub Moc wrote: Actually stuff like cat/pkg-1.2_alpha3_pre4 is valid now and honored by portage; dunno how does that fit the netbeans upstream scheme, though.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Carsten Lohrke
On Samstag, 17. März 2007, Petteri Räty wrote: It's already used by alsa-driver. Then either me or the one doing so missed something on the discussion, why it was requested in the first place. Something to clarify in our ebuild policy. Carsten pgpUkMku2iZHo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Drake Wyrm
Steve Dibb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any objections to globalizing the 'gs' use flag on support for ghostscript? snip [-] gs (app-office/rabbit): Ghostscript support [-] gs (media-gfx/graphicsmagick): enable ghostscript support [-] gs (media-gfx/imagemagick): enable

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 02:20 -0700, Ilya A. Volynets-Evenbakh wrote: There is a bit of contradiction in what you said there. Either the package is well tested, and should go into the tree, first with ~arch keywords, and then eventually with arch keywords, or it is experimental, and as such has

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread William L. Thomson Jr.
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 14:13 +0100, Carsten Lohrke wrote: On Samstag, 17. März 2007, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: IMHO I think it should be up to the package maintainer how close they want to follow upstream. With regard to development, progress, testing, qa, feedback. I think it's a very

Re: [gentoo-dev] gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Michael Krelin
If you're feeling ambitious, it might be more appropriate to change that use flag to ``ps: Add support for postscript'' so that it describes the functionality rather than the package providing that functionality. Isn't less ambiguous 'postscript' even better? Love, H -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC Package name additions

2007-03-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:01:45 +0100 Carsten Lohrke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Samstag, 17. März 2007, Jakub Moc wrote: Actually stuff like cat/pkg-1.2_alpha3_pre4 is valid now and honored by portage; dunno how does that fit the netbeans upstream scheme, though. The additional postfix is

Re: [gentoo-dev] gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Dibb
Michael Krelin wrote: If you're feeling ambitious, it might be more appropriate to change that use flag to ``ps: Add support for postscript'' so that it describes the functionality rather than the package providing that functionality. Isn't less ambiguous 'postscript' even better? I was

Re: [gentoo-dev] A User's View of the Code of Conduct

2007-03-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Larry Lines wrote: The network analysts at one of my jobs actually make the new people install Gentoo on a box just for the experience. Unless there's a compelling business argument for this practice, I consider it an abuse of authority. Does this practice increase revenues or decrease

[gentoo-dev] Re: gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Long
Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: I have heard about the magic limit of 5, but whatever... Is there a *technical* objection then to server? global use flags (searching: server) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: server)

Re: [gentoo-dev] gs use flag local - global

2007-03-17 Thread Doug Goldstein
Steve Dibb wrote: Michael Krelin wrote: If you're feeling ambitious, it might be more appropriate to change that use flag to ``ps: Add support for postscript'' so that it describes the functionality rather than the package providing that functionality. Isn't less ambiguous 'postscript' even

[gentoo-dev] Re: A User's View of the Code of Conduct

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Long
M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Larry Lines wrote: The network analysts at one of my jobs actually make the new people install Gentoo on a box just for the experience. Unless there's a compelling business argument for this practice, I consider it an abuse of authority. Does this practice

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: A User's View of the Code of Conduct

2007-03-17 Thread Dale
Steve Long wrote: M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: Larry Lines wrote: The network analysts at one of my jobs actually make the new people install Gentoo on a box just for the experience. Unless there's a compelling business argument for this practice, I consider it an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo's problems

2007-03-17 Thread M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: I think you're massively underestimating the requirements of the average user, what with the tree as complex as it is these days. Most users now: * Have to use external repositories * Have to handle at least some keywording overrides themselves * Have to have some way of