Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI specification in ebuilds

[Brian Harring]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:43:55AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 04/10/2012 03:53 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > +^[ \t]*EAPI=(['"]?)([A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*)\1[ \t]*(#.*)?$
>
> We could make the ([A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*) group "optional", but treat it as
> an error if the group is missing. That way, the package manager can
> detect invalid assignments earlier, and can skip sourcing the ebuild in
> this case.

Or disallow EAPI= .

There isn't any reason to reset it to an unknown EAPI manually like 
that; if code does that, the code is wrong imo, thus skip trying to 
parse that.
~harring