On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 07:50:36PM +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > GLEP 55 is simple, it solves all the problems we have (including the > > version issue, which everyone is conveniently ignoring), it doesn't > > require us to guess what's going to happen next and it can be > > implemented immediately. That's a rather big deal. > > The "header comment" solution solves all these issues too, without > embedding unrelated information in the filename [1]. It can be > implemented immediately, too. > > The argument that was always used against such solutions was that > it would "hurt performance". However, when the council asked for > benchmarks that would prove that point, nobody could provide them.
Just a note... it's effectively background noise if implemented even halfway sanely, and that's clocking it from w/in pkgcore; for portage, it will be purely in the noise. That's not to say it's *efficient*- it's just not a real world performance concern. ~brian
