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From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI 5
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:26:59
Message-Id: 20379.50657.771443.412191@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI 5 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 >>>>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:11:38 +0200
4 > Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
5 >> >>>>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
6 >> >> > * Get a versionator replacement into the PM
7 >> >>
8 >> >> Given the long time it's been in limbo I doubt that this will be a
9 >> >> quick feature. (But I'll be glad if you convince me of the
10 >> >> opposite.)
11 >>
12 >> > I thought we just didn't have that because we couldn't add new
13 >> > global scope functions.
14 >>
15 >> But can we already for EAPI 5? Wouldn't the following:
16 >>
17 >> EAPI=5
18 >> MY_PV=$(new_pm_version_mangler_function ${PV})
19 >>
20 >> still fail for old package managers that don't implement EAPI parsing?
21
22 > Didn't the Council effectively vote to ignore that problem?
23
24 Yes, but after some reasonable transition period.
25
26 Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI 5 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com>