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Hello again, |
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I'd like to get some feedback about what people would like to have |
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in the final EAPI 2. In planning for this EAPI bump, we should |
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strike a balance somewhere in between everything that we'd like to |
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have and whatever we can implement in a short period of time. It |
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doesn't really makes sense to delay the EAPI bump too much for |
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implementation of new features, since those features can simply be |
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reserved for a future EAPI bump. |
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The latest experiment EAPI is 2_pre2, supported by |
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>=sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc7. Please refer to the html documentation |
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[1] for addition information about the experimental EAPI extensions |
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which are summarized here: |
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* The 'doman' helper function recognizes language codes in man page |
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source files, and uses them to generate an appropriate |
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installation path. |
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* Dependency atoms can be constrained to match specific USE flag |
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states, including USE conditional expressions embedded within |
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the atoms themselves. |
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* The old src_compile phase function is split into separate |
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src_configure and src_compile fuctions. |
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* Default phase function implementations for the current EAPI are |
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accessible via a function having a name that begins with default_ |
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and ends with the respective phase function name. |
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* Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are |
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accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi', |
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followed by the EAPI value. |
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* The default phase function implementation for the currently |
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executing phase is accessible as a function named 'default'. |
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In addition to the above extensions, I've received a patch for |
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SRC_URI arrows [2] that I plan to review but haven't had time yet. |
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Please file bugs for any additional features that you'd like to add |
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and mark them as blockers of bug 174380 [3]. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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[1] |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi |
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[2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177863 |
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[3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174380 |
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