Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-22 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 21 June 2010 21:23, Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] I'm still trying to think of a good name. I understand the concerns about introspection being too generic and non GNOME-y, but gir is likely to cause confusion. gir is not good because it gives near-zero information. I

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Michał Górny
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:13:56 +0530 Arun Raghavan ford_pref...@gentoo.org wrote: 2010/6/21 Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. ... Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd)

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Sunday 20 of June 2010 16:42:58 Arun Raghavan wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. The purpose of the flag is to enable the building of GIR for the package using dev-libs/gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection is going to be quite important in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 20 of June 2010 16:42:58 Arun Raghavan wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. I don't mind adding it as globally recognizable USE flag, I'd mind however having it enabled

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Maciej Mrozowski
On Monday 21 of June 2010 16:22:08 Olivier Crête wrote: On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:33 +0200, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: On Sunday 20 of June 2010 16:42:58 Arun Raghavan wrote: Hi folks, I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. The purpose of the flag is to enable the

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-21 Thread Arun Raghavan
On 21 June 2010 21:14, Maciej Mrozowski reave...@gmail.com wrote: [...] If that's the case (they are essential for Gnome or whatever to work, just two files per package, not bringing any additional dependencies nor probability of causing compilation failures), I find it rather odd to make it

[gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hi folks, I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. The purpose of the flag is to enable the building of GIR for the package using dev-libs/gobject-introspection. gobject-introspection is going to be quite important in upcoming GNOME releases, allowing for the automated generation

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Olivier Crête
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. ... Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I would force it on always for everyone. Due to

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
2010/6/21 Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. ... Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 04:14:16PM -0400, Olivier Crrrte wrote: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. ... Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Do we really want

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Nirbheek Chauhan
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: Beyond that, the naming kind of sucks from where I'm sitting- it's a gobject/gnome specific flag in intention, but introspection has many meanings elsewhere that may not map cleanly there. Well, there's nothing else in

Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: introspection

2010-06-20 Thread Arun Raghavan
2010/6/21 Olivier Crête tes...@gentoo.org: On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 20:12 +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: I'd like to propose a new global USE-flag: introspection. ... Any objections? I'll wait till Wed (June 23rd) before adding this if there aren't any. Do we really want it to be a USE flag ? I