Re: [gentoo-dev] Python expat USE flag

[Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis]

2008-12-28 05:23:12 Jesus Rivero napisał(a):
 Hello everyone,
 
 ~A while ago there was a discussion about the new expat USE flag in
 dev-lang/python. The flag was first introduced by Vapier on December 08th.
 
 ~While having expat USE flag may be of great use for embedded
 systems or in bootstrapping/releasing phases, it is not so in both in
 Gentoo related projects and software in general. Vapier fixed this by
 making the USE flag +expat.
 
 ~Now, the issue is many people, me included, don't like that name
 for the USE flag for a variety of reasons one of them being that expat
 doesn't correlate directly with the use of xml in python provided that
 developers may choose another lib for handling xml other than that, like
 libxml2.
 
 ~I want to change the USE flag to something else if people don't
 like 'build' and make it 'minimal' or 'embedded' as Nirbheek suggested/
 mailto:nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com//. /I think that  is more suitable
 to the problem at hand. I don't want to start a silly fuss over this,
 just that there are some version bumps I'd like to make, but I would
 like to have a consensus on this before I make the bumps.
 
 ~   What do you think?

+1 for 'minimal'.

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis


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[gentoo-dev] Python expat USE flag

[Jesus Rivero]

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Hello everyone,

~A while ago there was a discussion about the new expat USE flag in 
dev-lang/python. The flag was first introduced by Vapier on December 08th.


~While having expat USE flag may be of great use for embedded 
systems or in bootstrapping/releasing phases, it is not so in both in 
Gentoo related projects and software in general. Vapier fixed this by 
making the USE flag +expat.


~Now, the issue is many people, me included, don't like that name 
for the USE flag for a variety of reasons one of them being that expat 
doesn't correlate directly with the use of xml in python provided that 
developers may choose another lib for handling xml other than that, like 
libxml2.


~I want to change the USE flag to something else if people don't 
like 'build' and make it 'minimal' or 'embedded' as Nirbheek suggested/ 
mailto:nirbheek.chau...@gmail.com//. /I think that  is more suitable 
to the problem at hand. I don't want to start a silly fuss over this, 
just that there are some version bumps I'd like to make, but I would 
like to have a consensus on this before I make the bumps.


~   What do you think?

Best regards,

~Jesus Rivero (Neurogeek)
~Gentoo Dev - Python team
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