From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from am1outboundpool.messaging.microsoft.com (am1ehsobe001.messaging.microsoft.com [213.199.154.204]) by yocto-www.yoctoproject.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21D24E0027F for ; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:52:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail40-am1-R.bigfish.com (10.3.201.233) by AM1EHSOBE001.bigfish.com (10.3.204.21) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.1.225.23; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:17 +0000 Received: from mail40-am1 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail40-am1-R.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DD1480160; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Forefront-Antispam-Report: CIP:160.33.194.230; KIP:(null); UIP:(null); IPV:NLI; H:usculsndmail03v.am.sony.com; RD:mail.sonyusa.com; EFVD:NLI X-SpamScore: -4 X-BigFish: VPS-4(zzbb2dI98dI9371I1432Izz1202h1d1ah1d2ahzzz2fh2a8h668h839h93fhd25hf0ah107ah1288h12a5h12a9h12bdh137ah13b6h1155h) Received-SPF: pass (mail40-am1: domain of am.sony.com designates 160.33.194.230 as permitted sender) client-ip=160.33.194.230; envelope-from=tim.bird@am.sony.com; helo=usculsndmail03v.am.sony.com ; .am.sony.com ; Received: from mail40-am1 (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail40-am1 (MessageSwitch) id 1348858334864100_1489; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from AM1EHSMHS018.bigfish.com (unknown [10.3.201.231]) by mail40-am1.bigfish.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCE384C0080; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from usculsndmail03v.am.sony.com (160.33.194.230) by AM1EHSMHS018.bigfish.com (10.3.207.156) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 14.1.225.23; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:13 +0000 Received: from usculsndmail11v.am.sony.com (usculsndmail11v.am.sony.com [146.215.230.102]) by usculsndmail03v.am.sony.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q8SIq9k1032495; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:10 GMT Received: from mail1x.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (mail2.sgo.in.sel.sony.com [43.130.1.112]) by usculsndmail11v.am.sony.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id q8SIq8IX017334 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL); Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:09 GMT Received: from [43.135.148.222] ([43.135.148.222]) by mail1x.sgo.in.sel.sony.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id q8SIq7p6025383; Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:08 GMT Message-ID: <5065F2F3.70209@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 11:56:51 -0700 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120827 Thunderbird/15.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rudolf Streif References: <41DEA4B02DBDEF40A0F3B6D0DDB1237946A720D0@FMSMSX151.amr.corp.intel.com> <31384487.oKEco2inpj@helios> <41DEA4B02DBDEF40A0F3B6D0DDB1237946A73111@FMSMSX151.amr.corp.intel.com> In-Reply-To: X-OriginatorOrg: am.sony.com Cc: Paul Eggleton , "yocto@yoctoproject.org" Subject: Re: The term Package as used in the YP docs X-BeenThere: yocto@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion of all things Yocto List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:52:20 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 09/28/2012 11:44 AM, Rudolf Streif wrote: > I am not advocating changing the variable names. I know that this is a huge undertaking and prone to many problems. This probably one of the many legacy things people will have to live with and > understand. In most cases recipe name and version exactly reflect the name and version of the package it is intended to build which to some extend mitigates the issue. > > As far as the Terms section in the manuals is concerned, I see that you already changed the describing text for the variables. That's sufficient, I think. (I answered Scott privately by mistake - here's some feedback on-list) I'm in favor of mentioning the history somewhere, because the names do have a 'P' in them, and this is confusing otherwise. Overall, I think the new wording is worthwhile. -- Tim ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Chair, CE Workgroup of the Linux Foundation Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Network Entertainment =============================