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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
Subject: Re: Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 22:58:12 +0000
On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:38:51 -0500
Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o> wrote:
> Should the next EAPI (as proposed) be a major "release" in terms of 
> naming?

We don't use major.minor numbers for EAPI or have a concept like that.
It's too much mess.

> And should it really be adding features?

Well... So far as I can see, the main driving force behind all of this
is the immediate need for [use(+)] deps (since developers don't want to
have to mess around with complex || statements), and [use(+)] is most
definitely a new feature.

> With that said, can't bug fixes be implemented without an EAPI bump?

If we screw up the specification and catch it early enough on, then
yes. But [use(+)] really isn't a bug fix...

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