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

[Lars Wendler]

Hi,

I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter how hard I 
try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to our prefix guys, you 
surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 seems to really get you out of 
quite some trouble you had with earlier EAPIs, but... 
I for myself never tried a prefix installation and I don't have any intentions 
to do this in the foreseeable future so I still prefer EAPI-2 wherever I can 
simply because EAPI-3 imposes overhead on my side which I have no real benefit 
from and I have no real clue about how to write proper EAPI-3 ebuilds.

-- 
Lars Wendler (Polynomial-C)
Gentoo package maintainer and bug-wrangler

Am Dienstag 25 Januar 2011, 12:20:30 schrieb Tomáš Chvátal:
> 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...
>
> Cheers
>
> Tomas