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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:45:52
Message-Id: 201109082045.27397.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Fwd: [gentoo-dev-announce] Call for items for September 13 council meeting by Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
1 On Thursday, September 08, 2011 14:10:23 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2 wrote:
3 > 2011-09-08 19:03:56 Thomas Sachau napisał(a):
4 > > Tomáš Chvátal schrieb:
5 > > > Start collecting ideas for EAPI5.
6 > >
7 > > 2) USE-flag based support to install for different slots (e.g. python,
8 > > ruby or php)
9 > >
10 > > The second one is already done in some eclasses, afaik php and ruby, but
11 > > it might be a good idea to have a general framework for all slotted
12 > > languages, so there is no need to re-implement the same for every
13 > > language.
14 >
15 > It's better to have it implemented in eclasses. E.g. Python scripts need to
16 > be specially handled (python_merge_intermediate_installation_images()
17 > renames them (so that their names include Python ABI), calls
18 > python_convert_shebangs() if they don't have appropriate shebangs, and
19 > calls python_generate_wrapper_scripts() to create appropriate wrapper
20 > scripts).
21
22 the EAPI still needs updating so that SLOT can contain USE flag based values.
23 like USE=multislot that binutils/gcc has carried forever.
24 -mike

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