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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:30:43
Message-Id: 4F5A4C26.2060601@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: EAPI specification in ebuilds by Alexis Ballier
1 On 03/09/2012 10:24 AM, Alexis Ballier wrote:
2 > On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 18:02:51 +0000
3 > James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >
5 >> On 9 March 2012 17:31, Michael Orlitzky <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
6 >>> At any rate, I'm now convinced that we all want GLEP 55, but with a
7 >>> different name.
8 >>
9 >> I think that moving the data to the filename is probably a better
10 >> approach than semi- or repeat parsing, but I prefer preserving the
11 >> .ebuild extension, and think that eapi should be specified similarly
12 >> to ebuild revision, as a suffix. for instance:
13 >>
14 >> app-foo/bar-1.0.0-r1.ebuild # EAPI0 (or the highest EAPI prior to the
15 >> new schema)
16 >> app-foo/bar-1.0.0-r1-e1.ebuild
17 >> app-foo/bar-1.0.0-r1-e99.ebuild
18 >>
19 >
20 > if you want to keep .ebuild you need to keep current naming, afaik
21 > package managers fail on invalid names
22
23 Invalid names like those should only trigger warnings.
24 --
25 Thanks,
26 Zac