Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented?
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:05:15
Message-Id: 4693AD47.3060501@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] should we do an EAPI bump now with features that are already implemented? by "Petteri Räty"
1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
2 Hash: SHA1
3
4 Petteri Räty wrote:
5 > Zac Medico kirjoitti:
6 >> Hi everyone,
7 >>
8 >> Bug 174380 [1] has a growing list of features that may be included in EAPI-1.
9 >> Some of the features are already implemented but can't be used in the portage
10 >> tree until we do an EAPI bump. The ones that are currently implemented include
11 >> slot deps [2] and iuse defaults [3]. Are these features important enough to
12 >> warrant an EAPI bump or should we wait for more features to materialize?
13 >>
14 >
15 > I know Java would heavily use slot deps. What is the ETA for use based
16 > depends?
17
18 Hopefully within 2 months or so. I'm planning to implement the infrastructure
19 that's necessary for it together with other stuff that will be needed for the
20 new dependency resolver. The exact time that it will be ready is difficult to
21 estimate because it depends on how much time I have to spend on it and how
22 fruitful the time is, both of which vary a lot.
23
24 Zac
25 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
26 Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux)
27
28 iD8DBQFGk61G/ejvha5XGaMRAop7AJ98ulIK/24Obs70t/40XWmIke4XpwCbBT1X
29 8gBX20/Bt9XHM9UWgyvQWp0=
30 =AfXK
31 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
32 --
33 gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list

Replies