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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI 5
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:17:04
Message-Id: 20120428111431.51350910@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI 5 by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:11:38 +0200
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > >>>>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 > >> > * Get a versionator replacement into the PM
5 > >>
6 > >> Given the long time it's been in limbo I doubt that this will be a
7 > >> quick feature. (But I'll be glad if you convince me of the
8 > >> opposite.)
9 >
10 > > I thought we just didn't have that because we couldn't add new
11 > > global scope functions.
12 >
13 > But can we already for EAPI 5? Wouldn't the following:
14 >
15 > EAPI=5
16 > MY_PV=$(new_pm_version_mangler_function ${PV})
17 >
18 > still fail for old package managers that don't implement EAPI parsing?
19
20 Didn't the Council effectively vote to ignore that problem?
21
22 --
23 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI 5 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>