[gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could have icedtea-1.2:1.6.ebuildN and icedtea-1.2:1.7.ebuildN. This particular situation

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:12:30 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could have

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:56 Fri 12 Sep , Doug Goldstein wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could have

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti: On 14:56 Fri 12 Sep , Doug Goldstein wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:21 Fri 12 Sep , Petteri Räty wrote: I do know how to get around it, I did state that in my original email. As it happens we are having a discussion on gentoo-java mailing list on whether we should use icedtea-openjdk build.icedtea version.ebuild or have different packages for

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti: On 22:21 Fri 12 Sep , Petteri Räty wrote: I do know how to get around it, I did state that in my original email. As it happens we are having a discussion on gentoo-java mailing list on whether we should use icedtea-openjdk build.icedtea version.ebuild or have