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There are situations in which downstream overlays need to have versions |
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of python which Gentoo no longer supports in the tree. |
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Currently, the only way to do this is for the overlay author to fork |
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python-utils-r1.eclass. This is highly undesirable since it creates a |
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very significant maintenance burden for the overlay author. |
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There are a couple of things we can do upstream to make this easier, and |
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I think we should do one of them. |
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The simplest way would be to apply the following patch. |
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In this situation, all the overlay author |
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would have to do is adjust the PYTHON_COMPAT_ALLOW_EXTRA_IMPLS variable. |
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The other option would be to move _PYTHON_ALL_IMPLS and the |
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implementation of _python_impl_supported to a separate eclass, e.g. |
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python-impls-r1.eclass. This eclass could be forked freely downstream |
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without worrying about the other python eclasses. |
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I will volunteer to do the legwork for this option if we do not like the |
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first one. |
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I would advocate the first option however since no one has to fork |
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anything. |
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Thoughts? |
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William |
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William Hubbs (1): |
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python.eclass: add PYTHON_COMPAT_ALLOW_EXTRA_IMPLS |
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eclass/python-utils-r1.eclass | 2 ++ |
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1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) |
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