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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
> I'm in the process of writing new and enhanced get_kernel_* functions for 
> the 
> grimoires (for querying kernel version and configure info in a spell) [0].
> 
> The code has already passed my initial tests. Once it's stable and in 
> FUNCTIONS (and the relevant spells have been edited accordingly), users can 
> specify in a variable the kernel version that they want to cast spells 
> against.
> 
> Initially I thought the variable would be called OVERRIDE_KERNEL_VERSION, 
> but 
> that might be a bit too long. There are other suggestions also:
> 
> MY_KERNEL_VERSION
> MY_UNAME_R
> USE_KERNEL_VERSION
> SET_KERNEL_VERSION
> 
> I'd like for the community to decide on this. Please tell me your favorites 
> and also give new suggestions if you want to. (My personal opinion is that 
> the _KERNEL_VERSION suffix should stay, I'd like the var name as 
> descriptive 
> as possible. But feel free to disagree.)
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10940

I believe USE_KERNEL_VERSION is the most appropriate from above.
SET_KERNEL_VERSION sounds as though it's setting the package's version
(or can sound, depending on how you read it ;)).

-sandalle

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