[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI usage in main tree

[Alex Alexander]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:20:30PM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
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> Hi,
> I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree.
> Currently we say that developers can use any named version they wish or
> find sufficient.
> I would on other hand like to have all ebuilds to use Latest EAPI
> version possible (given the eclasses support it [hint hint maintainers
> of eclasses should always try to support latest :P]) with expection for
> base-system or more specialy depgraph for portage that needs to be
> EAPI0. [[ And here we need to find out some upgrade proccess that would
> work for everyone so we could somehow migrate them too :)]]
>
> With this usually new developers should be aware only of latest EAPI and
> wont need to memorize what which EAPI support. Heck even I sometimes
> forget what i can do with some version and whatnot.
>
> Winner for being PITA in this race is python.eclass that HAS completely
> different behavior based on EAPI version used...

I agree with the idea, however, just creating the policy won't be
enough.

We should make repoman print a warning if an older EAPI is used, maybe
even refuse to commit (without -f), at least on version bumps, to get
the devs' attention. base-system excluded for now, obviously. 

> Cheers
>
> Tomas
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