Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

[Donnie Berkholz]

On 23:20 Mon 17 Dec     , Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> Abstract
> ========
>
> This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for ebuilds (for
> example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1).
>
> Motivation
> ==========
>
> Including EAPI in the ebuild file extension has the following advantages:
>
>   *  Possibility to extend the versioning rules in an EAPI, and to use them
>      immediately in the Gentoo tree. For example, addition of the scm suffix -
>      GLEP54 [#GLEP54]_.
>
>   *  Possibility to extend the behaviour of inherit and add new global scope
>      functions (as a result of not sourcing ebuilds with unsupported EAPI).

Here's some other ideas for how to express EAPI. What if we:

Used EAPI-named subdirectories instead of tagging it into the filename?

Used (and required) filesystem extended attributes?

Stuck ranges into metadata.xml for which EAPIs applied?

Thanks,
Donnie
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