Re: [gentoo-dev] How can I get the ebuild I wrote noticed by someone(maybe developer)?

2008-04-06 Thread Zhang Le
Or you can become a dev and maintain this package yourself. Zhang Le Simplifid Chinese Doc/GMN Lead -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Jeeves IRC replacement now alive - Willikins

2008-08-06 Thread Zhang Le
are the contact for any problems/troubles. #gentoo-cn Thanks Robin! Zhang Le

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2009 Council Elections

2009-06-28 Thread Zhang Le
had something worth listening to, but a proxy is more than just a > platform to talk - any mailing list subscriber already has that. Agreed. -- Zhang, Le Gentoo/Loongson Developer http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 pgpDo0wS2P2Fi.pgp Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Zhang Le
Some packages don't provide standard "setup.py". Take a look at the attachment.This is a new ebuld.So my suggestion is to add a new variable to distutils.eclass, e.g. SETUP.PY, if it's set, then use it, otherwise let it defaults to " setup.py".Looking forward to hear

Re: [gentoo-dev] [gentoo dev]suggestion to distutils eclass

2006-07-16 Thread Zhang Le
On 7/17/06, Alastair Tse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 00:49 +0800, Zhang Le wrote:> Some packages don't provide standard "setup.py".> Take a look at the attachment.> This is a new ebuld.I agree with Stefan, just put a symlink in from whatever the

Re: [gentoo-dev] how to publish ebuild

2007-03-22 Thread Zhang Le
a package will be added to the gentoo portage system. Any suggestion? Are thoses software widely used in Chinese user community? If so, I can put them in gentoo-china overlay. -- Zhang Le, Robert http://zhllg.blogspot.com http://zh.gentoo-wiki.com http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook http

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang Le
recuiting me! You can just call me Robert. Or if you prefer to call me my Chinese name, please call me Zhang Le whenever possible. Thanks! In Chinese tradition, family name is placed before given name. ;) > > Le is joining us from Hong Kong (yes, that's in China boys and girls) where > h

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang Le
ng and recuiting me! You can just call me Robert. Or if you prefer to call me my Chinese name, please call me Zhang Le whenever possible. Thanks! In Chinese tradition, family name is placed before given name. ;) > Le is joining us from Hong Kong (yes, that's in China boys and girls) whe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: New Developer: Le Zhang (r0bertz)

2007-05-17 Thread Zhang Le
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Duncan wrote: > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Thu, 17 May 2007 23:16:59 +0800: > >>> Le is joining us from Hong Kong (yes, that's in China boys and girls) >>> wher

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Features and documentation

2007-11-28 Thread Zhang Le
nyway. > > What if Donnie had used s/changes/new features/ ? Then his proposal > makes much more sense. I agree that new features makes more sense here. USE flag description in metadata.xml is just an example of new feature, IMO. My 2 HK$, ;) -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
variable in bash can you think of? Is it that hard to come up with a way to normalized the definition? Just like charset code normalization, e.g. from UTF-8 to utf8? -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
the process. And you are keeping scolding people for not understanding the process. So, why not introduce the process a little bit? -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
sefully... So please make those people understand, so they can comment usefully. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
uild's content has any restrictions. You can extrace the definition from file content no matter how it is defined using whatever way you like. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
the contents :) Exactly. And this way is not elegant. File name is used to uniquely identify a file in a system, not to decide how the content of the file should be interpreted. Never ever seen a file type extension with a version number. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
EAPI's. And we should set a time constraint on the transition. Other than that we can only have one working EAPI which all package managers conforms to. Otherwise, I think we may be risking forking the portage tree. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 658

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:52:16 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Exactly. >> And this way is not elegant. >> File name is used to uniquely identify a file in a system, not to >> decide how the content of the file should be in

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
wn their concerns about their distro. If someone don't understand, we should help them to understand, not just exclude them from this discussion. They should learn, however we should at least give them directions. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Santiago M. Mola wrote: > On Dec 20, 2007 8:01 PM, Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How many EAPI's do we have now? > > In Portage tree we have "0" (default) and "1". There are others in > external projects, for example "prefix&quo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
ng ebuildy things, there are a lot more useful places to > start. It worths. It will influence our future. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
year before we can use it. Why rush on this thing? If the EAPI's feature is not freezing, I think we should do nothing but wait. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:09:44 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I see it differently. >> Everyone participated in this discussion has shown their concerns >> about their distro. >> If someone don't understand, we sh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:49:04 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It should not appear as a black box, and effectively prevent normal >> gentoo users and developers from contributing to decisions which may >> have a great impa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:52:04 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:14:12 +0100 >>> Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:26:06 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> And no, it's not worth writing them. If people have time to spend >>> documenting ebuildy things, there are a lot more useful places to >>> start

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:38:43 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am afraid if we want all people accept this GLEP wholeheartedly, >> someone ought to be stand out and take this responsibility. > > No no, we want all the people w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:34:07 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> * We have to wait a year before we can use it. >> Why rush on this thing? >> If the EAPI's feature is not freezing, I think we should do nothing >> but

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:23:08 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I really don't see the necessity to have so many EAPI's > > A new EAPI is needed for new features, so new EAPIs will be needed in > the future. Equa

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:51:03 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> That's the problem about the agreement between PM and ebuild. >> >> If this is agreed upon >>>>>>> import vim-spell using language="en&q

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:56:35 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By "all people", I mean all those who have participated in this >> discussion. They shown their concern. >> We should listen to what they said. > &

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-20 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:03:25 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We can't take the risk of forking/splitting ourselves in exchange of >> only a little features. > > EAPI introduces no risk of that. Quite the opposite -- it re

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Thomas Pani wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800 >> Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory. >>> But an total outsider has no chance to deduce what the 1 in eb

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > On Thursday 20 of December 2007 19:29:22 Zhang Le wrote: >> So please make those people understand, so they can comment usefully. > > Are we in the elementary school or something? This is really getting > ridiculous. IMHO, what is more ridiculous is

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 05:25:00 Zhang Le wrote: >> The question is really simple. >> Whether we should have two different place to define EAPI? > > We need two places because it wasn't implemented properly in the first place > an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
not force user to upgrade their PM? After all, upgrading is part of our normal life. Now I will try read portage to understand how the metadata generation process works and try to make a doc of it. So before that, I will probably be not so responsive. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerpr

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
y give the EAPI of any current > or future ebuild given that ebuild's filename (hint: you can't). Simple. Whatever you'd like to have in the suffix, we can put it on the first line of the ebuild. Just go and get it, and that's the EAPI. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:09:27 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> IMHO, what is more ridiculous is keeping ask other to be quiet in a >> discussion which is supposed to be open to everyone who cares about >> it. > > It's

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Luca Barbato wrote: > Still I think we should just postpone this discussion and get a 2008.0 out. And postpone until some doc is out. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:01:23 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Luca Barbato wrote: >>> Still I think we should just postpone this discussion and get a >>> 2008.0 out. >> And postpone until some doc is out. > >

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Thursday 20 December 2007 20:01:55 Zhang Le wrote: >> IMO, we can not have more than two EAPI's simultaneously. > > That defeats the whole purpose of having EAPIs. Which is to keep a sane > upgrade path... Upgrading happens between tw

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:55:50 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> Note *the way things are currently*. If you think this is untrue, >>> provide an algorithm that will correctly give the EAPI of an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:49:10 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>>> As long as there is an agreement in any given point of time, it is >>>> OK. Such as, put your EAPI definition on the first

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:27:31 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But I am not sick of EAPI's. You see? I am sick of so *many* EAPI's. > > What? All two of them that you need to know about, where the second > one is the firs

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Zhang Le wrote: > I have just created a page of EAPI on wikipedia, let's improve it together. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAPI And later convert it to guidexml and put it on gentoo.org, of course. -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B9

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:58:28PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >>> On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 16:09:27 +0800 >>> Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> IMHO, what is more ridiculous is keeping ask other to be

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Richard Freeman wrote: > Fernando J. Pereda wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:01:04PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: >>> All could be get before sourcing. >>> I know you'd say people will use all syntaxes to define. But how many are >>> there? EAPI=1, EAPI=&qu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 06:01:04PM +0800, Zhang Le wrote: >>> Your algorithm: >>> >>> Does not work for existing ebuilds that have implicit EAPI 0. >> That's obvious. If no suffix, just treat it as EAPI 0. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Jan Kundrát wrote: > Zhang Le wrote: >> Zhang Le wrote: >>> I have just created a page of EAPI on wikipedia, let's improve it together. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAPI >> And later convert it to guidexml and put it on gentoo.org, of course. > > W

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 17:49:32 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> When a new version comes out, we should educate developers about it >> and encourage them to convert their ebuilds to use new EAPI. > > No, we shouldn't. Peopl

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-22 Thread Zhang Le
Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > Their docs are usually the source. And files under Documentation And they have a policy which requires them to write a doc for any new feature/functionality to be accepted -- Zhang Le, Robert GPG key ID: 1E4E2973 Fingerprint: 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C

Re: [gentoo-dev] Monthly Gentoo Council Reminder for March

2008-03-06 Thread Zhang Le
gt; orphaned packages if we potentiate proxy-maint. ++ IMO giving proxy-maintainer due credit and publicity, meaning make it a formal position, could solve the very problem Anant's proposal intended to solve. Zhang Le -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [rfc] repo_name/layman-global.txt overlay name mismatches

2009-07-13 Thread Zhang Le
On 15:53 Sun 12 Jul , Sebastian Pipping wrote: > The output produces line like > > MISMATCH "gentoo-china" (layman-global) versus "china" (repo_name) > I have just changed gentoo-china overlay's repo_name to gentoo-china. -- Zhang, Le Gentoo/L

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Restabilizing MIPS

2010-11-11 Thread Zhang Le
e.keywords files (which as I understand might be > by design), so I'm unable to put together a stage from the versions > I'd like to stabilize. Are your recent o32 stages straight-up ~mips? > Can you post your spec files somewhere? My way was to keyword those ebuilds and put them in my overlay. Not decent, but works. -_- -- Zhang, Le Gentoo/Loongson Developer http://zhangle.is-a-geek.org 0260 C902 B8F8 6506 6586 2B90 BC51 C808 1E4E 2973 pgpnsdLAmWNHN.pgp Description: PGP signature