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On 08:00 Thu 12 Feb , Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> On 15:53 Thu 12 Feb , Tiziano Müller wrote: |
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> > ... and another issue asked by darkside already for the last meeting: |
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> > - bash version in the tree ... please crawl archives.g.o on the -dev |
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> > ml or your own archive for that. |
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> To save everyone else wasting time on this, I did it: |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7254f04268189c86613391a2993a2805.xml |
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This will come up whenever new features show up in bash, so it's not |
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purely a 3.1 issue. Here are a couple of options that have been |
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mentioned in earlier discussion: |
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Option A: Add bash dependencies to things using new features, and |
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guarantee bash 3.1 on boxes doing metadata generation. This would break |
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overlay users who aren't on 3.1 yet. (And will happen for new features |
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in the future, too.) |
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Option B: bash 3.1 has been stable since April 2006. We could lock down |
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on the 3.1 feature set in EAPIs 0-2 and require new EAPIs for new bash |
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features. Currently, PMS is set at 3.0 rather than 3.1. |
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I think we should update the PMS to bash 3.1 to allow for '+=' use. I |
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looked through the bash changelog, and 3.2 didn't appear to add any new |
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and useful features. We should then require a new EAPI for new bash |
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features. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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Donnie Berkholz |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com |
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