Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Patrick Lauer
On 11/06/12 05:45, Duncan wrote: > Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:39:19 -0800 as excerpted: > >> On 05/11/2012 07:31, Steven J. Long wrote: >>> Are you really missing the fact that by testing someone's overlay, the >>> package would by definition not be in the tree, and you would

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 05/11/2012 13:45, Duncan wrote: > > What about doing overlays, but ONLY one-at-a-time, and ONLY on special- > request-runs, presumably immediately pre-tree-introduction? Among other > things that might help for stuff like kde where a whole slew of packages > are introduced to the tree (and s

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-05 Thread Duncan
Diego Elio Pettenò posted on Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:39:19 -0800 as excerpted: > On 05/11/2012 07:31, Steven J. Long wrote: >> Are you really missing the fact that by testing someone's overlay, the >> package would by definition not be in the tree, and you wouldn't have >> to file any bugs at all, jus

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 01/11/2012 19:23, Steven J. Long wrote: > He's right tho: the topic was "Why doesn't your tinderbox work with > overlays?" Your response was to insult Arfrever and not actually answer > the point. _Arfrever himself_ point to my reason in that blog post, FFS. > Not that I agree with the argumen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Steven J. Long wrote: > He's right tho: the topic was "Why doesn't your tinderbox work with > overlays?" Your response was to insult Arfrever and not actually answer > the point. Well, nobody is paying Diego to make a tinderbox that works with overlays. He actual

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 01:00:14 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > This has nothing to do with dependencies not getting rebuilt when the library > does. It's about switching to an earlier compiler version and having > every single package depending on that library fail to build due to something > that is non-

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Steven J. Long
On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 11:50:13PM -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > Dirty experiments, no. Testing stuff that's almost ready, yes. If you > run the tinderbox against dirty experiments, the time _I_ pour in to > sort through the logs report bugs is wasted because they'll hit stupid > hacks that fa

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 07:30:06 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > I guess it will be difficult for representatives from a given distribution to > "fix" very much upstream, if possible I think that the distribution should > instead be fixed to deal with the limits imposed by upstream practises. Also, the am

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 07:30:06 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Ryan Hill wrote: > > You can NOT > > I am not saying that it is a good idea, but of course you can. It has > pretty sucky effects on how your library can be used, disabling > various smart stuff that modern systems do, but I guess the upstre

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-11-01 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 10/31/12 11:13 PM, Graham Murray wrote: > Ryan Hill writes: > >> Christ on a $#@%! crutch. You can NOT auto-enable C++11 in your library >> based >> on a configure test and then stuff flags that are not supported by previous >> compiler versions into pkg-config for library consumers. Somebo

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012 07:21:38 +0100 Peter Stuge wrote: > Graham Murray wrote: > > > Christ on a $#@%! crutch. You can NOT auto-enable C++11 in your library > > > based > > > on a configure test and then stuff flags that are not supported by > > > previous > > > compiler versions into pkg-config

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Stuge
Ryan Hill wrote: > You can NOT I am not saying that it is a good idea, but of course you can. It has pretty sucky effects on how your library can be used, disabling various smart stuff that modern systems do, but I guess the upstream practises may be from a different time. > Somebody sane please

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-31 Thread Peter Stuge
Graham Murray wrote: > > Christ on a $#@%! crutch. You can NOT auto-enable C++11 in your library > > based > > on a configure test and then stuff flags that are not supported by previous > > compiler versions into pkg-config for library consumers. Somebody sane > > please fix this. > > Though i

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-31 Thread Diego Elio Pettenò
On 31/10/2012 23:13, Graham Murray wrote: > Though is it not normally a reasonable assumption that the library > consumers will be built with the same or later compiler version as the > library? In which case it does no harm. Not really, it's not. -- Diego Elio Pettenò — Flameeyes flamee...@flam

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-31 Thread Graham Murray
Ryan Hill writes: > Christ on a $#@%! crutch. You can NOT auto-enable C++11 in your library based > on a configure test and then stuff flags that are not supported by previous > compiler versions into pkg-config for library consumers. Somebody sane > please fix this. Though is it not normally

[gentoo-dev] Re: Maintainer needed: dev-libs/icu

2012-10-31 Thread Ryan Hill
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:39:14 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 11:35 -0700, Diego Elio Pettenò wrote: > > The problem with ICU is worse than you expect. For once, with version > > 50, it changes ABI (but not soname as far as I can tell) depending on > > which compiler you