Gentoo Logo
Gentoo Spaceship




Note: Due to technical difficulties, the Archives are currently not up to date. GMANE provides an alternative service for most mailing lists.
c.f. bug 424647
List Archive: gentoo-dev
Navigation:
Lists: gentoo-dev: < Prev By Thread Next > < Prev By Date Next >
Headers:
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Subject: Re: Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2011 09:14:50 -0500
On 15:20 Thu 01 Sep     , Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> Dne 1.9.2011 15:15, Michał Górny napsal(a):
> > We can either go with a new func and retroactively replace the 
> > eclass, or retroactively fix all uses and fix the old funcs.
> 
> As even if you fix main tree you can't ensure that you won't mess with 
> some overlay (silently as it would not be seen by default).
> 
> I would then go proactively and fix the packages inheriting the bashcomp 
> eclass and when done just mark the eclass as dead.

Yes, please stop breaking backwards compat without version bumps to a 
new eclass. It's just as annoying in an eclass as in a shared library.

-- 
Thanks,
Donnie

Donnie Berkholz
Council Member / Sr. Developer
Gentoo Linux
Blog: http://dberkholz.com
Attachment:
pgp0YSJa2uCqQ.pgp (PGP signature)
References:
Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
-- Michał Górny
Re: Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
-- Tomáš Chvátal
Re: Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
-- Michał Górny
Re: Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
-- Tomáš Chvátal
Navigation:
Lists: gentoo-dev: < Prev By Thread Next > < Prev By Date Next >
Previous by thread:
Re: Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
Next by thread:
Re: Rewriting bash-completion.eclass
Previous by date:
Re: RFC: devqawarn()?
Next by date:
Re: Re: euscan proof of concept (like debian's uscan)


Updated Jun 29, 2012

Summary: Archive of the gentoo-dev mailing list.

Donate to support our development efforts.

Copyright 2001-2013 Gentoo Foundation, Inc. Questions, Comments? Contact us.