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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Future EAPI version operator changes
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2016 21:11:40
Message-Id: 22560.60920.511610.500891@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Future EAPI version operator changes by Brian Dolbec
1 >>>>> On Mon, 7 Nov 2016, Brian Dolbec wrote:
2
3 > But the main problem with it is that most upstream requirements.txt,
4 > etc.,... all use the infix method. And I hate to say it, but more
5 > and more so-called "package management" systems (mostly language
6 > specific ones) all use that method. So transitioning to that, should
7 > make package maintenance easier. Possibly even have some automation
8 > tools to check them during version bumps, etc...
9
10 But certainly any such automated tools would do a complete parsing of
11 the grammar? Because then conversion from infix to prefix notation or
12 vice versa is trivial.
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14 Ulrich