On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:19:56 +0000
Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:13:16 +0100
> Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
> > Which begs the question: is it really worth allowing it?
> > If we only allow constant assignments (which is an implicit
> > restriction in the file extension version) then this can be parsed
> > easily with grep/tr/awk/etc and can be the magic eapi guessing. Of
> > course the tree has to be checked before implementing this and we'll
> > have to wait a good amount of time before breaking the current eapi
> > bash-parsing but I'm not aware of any eapi proposal that would break
> > the current behavior and would be usable in the main tree within a
> > reasonable amount of time such that we can't ignore backward
> > compatibility.
> 
> ...and then we have to do the whole thing again every time something
> new crops up.

Please give an example because I fail to see how.

> EAPI was supposed to solve this, and profile eapi and
> GLEP 55 finish the job. Repeatedly going back and saying "oh, we have
> to wait another year or more again" is unacceptable.

Had we found a compromise at the beginning of glep55, that extra year
would be over by now...


Alexis.