Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:43:09 -0700
> Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o> wrote:
> 
>> Richard Freeman wrote:
>>> I still don't see why we need to be encoding metadata in filenames.
>>> PERL doesn't care what a file extension is, python doesn't care,
>>> bzip2 doesn't care, tar doesn't care, gzip doesn't care, and even
>>> ld-linux.so doesn't care.  I'm sure that in at least some of these
>>> cases they end up parsing parts of the file twice - once to figure
>>> out what it is, and the second time to actually handle it.  I'm
>>> actually hard pressed to think of any unix-based software that uses
>>> the filename to store a mandatory file format versioning specifier
>>> of some kind.
> 
> $ ls /usr/lib

ldconfig ?

>> I have to admit I'm in the same camp with Richard, and don't
>> understand the necessity.  I'm also opposed to creating arbitrary
>> suffixes to the ebuild extension, for cosmetic and compatibility
>> reasons.
>>
>> Plus, I don't really grasp the whole "we have to source the whole
>> ebuild to know the EAPI version" argument.  It's one variable, in one
>> line. Can't a simple parser get that and go from there?
> 
> Not really.  Let's play Guess the EAPI. :o
> 
> 1.
> -----
> EAPI=1
> ----
> 
> 2. (with myeclass.eclass containing EAPI=2)
> -----
> EAPI=1
> inherit myeclass

Invalid

> -----
> 
> 3. (with myeclass.eclass containing EAPI=2)
> -----
> EAPI=5
> inherit myeclass

Invalid

> So you see, it's not as easy as a grep command.  You need to source the
> ebuild to know how things like inherit will affect the environment.
> And without knowing the EAPI, you don't know which version of inherit to
> call.

It it isn't invalid already...

> 
> (i hope i have this right.  feel free to call me names if i don't)

Names!

lu

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