[gentoo-dev] Re: scm in GLEP 54 (was: Council meeting summary for meeting on May 14, 2009)

2009-05-17 Thread Joe Peterson
Thomas Anderson wrote: - Vote on GLEP 54 This vote was called for by dertobi123. The vote was on whether to approve GLEP 54 conditional on whether GLEP 55 is passed. The reason for this is that GLEP 54 is unimplementable without the problems mentioned in GLEP 55

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: scm in GLEP 54 (was: Council meeting summary for meeting on May 14, 2009)

2009-05-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 17 May 2009 13:24:27 -0600 Joe Peterson lava...@gentoo.org wrote: Thomas Anderson wrote: - Vote on GLEP 54 This vote was called for by dertobi123. The vote was on whether to approve GLEP 54 conditional on whether GLEP 55 is passed. The reason for this is that GLEP 54 is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: scm in GLEP 54 (was: Council meeting summary for meeting on May 14, 2009)

2009-05-17 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: History suggests that if it goes up for debate again, no decision will ever be reached. If we simply have to decide between alternatives scm and live, then I don't see what should be so complicated about reaching a decision. GLEP 54 doesn't really

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: scm in GLEP 54

2009-05-17 Thread Ben de Groot
Joe Peterson wrote: I have not seen much discussion lately regarding the choice of the string, scm in this GLEP. I asked the author today on IRC, and he said he doesn't have a particularly strong reason for scm beyond historical reasons. Since we are stuck with the string once it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: scm in GLEP 54 (was: Council meeting summary for meeting on May 14, 2009)

2009-05-17 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: About a million years ago, we were going to move all the SCM packages into their own category (but it never happened, because port001's script didn't work). There was a huge bikeshed debate about whether to use vcs, rcs, scm or something else. In