[Fedora-packaging] FESCo notes on OCaml guidelines change

Jesse Keating jkeating at redhat.com
Sat Mar 15 16:47:27 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 17:46 +0200, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> Or use "abi" instead of "personality", if nothing else it's shorter to 
> type and covers the same idea.
> 
> What the spec etc syntax for that would be I dunno, maybe just
> "Requires: foo%{_abi}" which would expand to foo(<abi name>), eg 
> foo(ppc32). Or something like that.
> 
> Does that make sense to others, or am I just out to luch as usual? ;)


Well I like personality because it does match other things that are
trying to express the same thing.

I don't like abi because we're already using that for things like
python(abi) to express a certain level of ABI from an application stack
rather than a CPU.

-- 
Jesse Keating
Fedora -- All my bits are free, are yours?
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