Re: [gentoo-dev] eqawarn for main tree

[Petteri Räty]

On 03/12/2010 11:27 PM, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 03/12/2010 11:39 AM, Petteri Räty wrote:
>> In eclasses there's often use for outputting QA warnings for ebuild
>> authors (at least in java and python could immediately make use of
>> this). Currently Portage has eqawarn available but it's considered
>> internal. Hopefully eqawarn finds it's way to the next EAPI but in the
>> mean while do we want:
>>
>> 1) Do a wrapper like attached to eutils.eclass
>> 2) Use whatever e* function that seems most appropriate (for example
>> einfo when it's common so user LOGging setups don't get too much noise)
>> 3) Have a speedy next EAPI if we can find more stuff like this to bundle
>
> Here's another option:
>
> 4) Retroactively add eqawarn to all EAPIs and use introspection to
> call eqawarn only if available (and drop the introspection after
> about 1 year):
>
>    declare -F eqawarn >/dev/null && \
>    eqawarn "this is ignored by older package managers"
>

As there was no further response and next EAPI isn't around the corner I
propose getting the ball rolling with option 1. I will commit the patch
next Sunday with needed documentation unless something comes up.

Regards,
Petteri