Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is likely to cause confusion. gir is not good because it gives near-zero information. I

[gentoo-dev] Re: Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-22 Thread Duncan
Arun Raghavan posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 +0530 as excerpted: b) For questions like - Should Python 3.x be stable?, isn't that for team leads to decide? And for the council to resolve in case of conflicts? Wouldn't the point for specifically pointing out python 3.x as an example,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Council manifesto of sping

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 15:32, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: Arun Raghavan posted on Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:43:42 +0530 as excerpted: b) For questions like - Should Python 3.x be stable?, isn't that for team leads to decide? And for the council to resolve in case of conflicts? Wouldn't the point

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Peter Hjalmarsson
tis 2010-06-22 klockan 15:17 +0530 skrev Arun Raghavan: On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is likely to cause confusion.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/10 15:33, Arun Raghavan wrote: Why not just gintrospection? I still think introspection is easier to grok. It's unlikely that it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other packages in the future, so let's stick with

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Jacob Godserv
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:33, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote: Gintrospection gives more information (things starting with g are generally gnome related, which this is), and grepping for introspection will still turn it up.  It also solves the concerns that all the people on this thread

[gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 20 June 2010 20:12, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Is anyone here vehemently against introspection. -- Arun Raghavan http://arunraghavan.net/ (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) (arunsr | GNOME)

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 22 June 2010 22:03, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] I still think introspection is easier to grok. It's unlikely that it's going to be used in a completely different sense by other packages in the future, so let's stick with introspection please. Gintrospection gives more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 22/06/10 18:11, Arun Raghavan wrote: It is not a GNOME-only flag. A general introspection flag may not be, but this isn't a general introspection flag, this is specific to gobject and the suggestions try to clarify that. People who want

[gentoo-dev] ndiswrapper, anyone?

2010-06-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
there's nothing usable left in tree, it's bitrotted for too long. will be masked for removal in 30 days if nobody wants to pick it up.

Re: [gentoo-dev] ndiswrapper, anyone?

2010-06-22 Thread Christoph Mende
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: there's nothing usable left in tree, it's bitrotted for too long. will be masked for removal in 30 days if nobody wants to pick it up. Well, I'm not using it, but I'd hate to see it go since I remember how I was

Re: [gentoo-dev] ndiswrapper, anyone?

2010-06-22 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 06/22/2010 11:45 PM, Christoph Mende wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuli Suominenssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: there's nothing usable left in tree, it's bitrotted for too long. will be masked for removal in 30 days if nobody wants to pick it up. Well, I'm not using it, but I'd

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 23 June 2010 01:47, Mike Auty ike...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] Which should not be an issue since any library that has some sort of introspection can use this flag (and the use.desc can be changed appropriately at that time if it does not use gobject-introspection). Why have to change it in