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Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...>
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Re: EAPI 5 (Was: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Making user patches globally available)
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Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:34:21 +0100
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On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:52:07 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:12:27 +0100
> Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@...> wrote:
> > * Get a versionator replacement into the PM
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> Why are we trying to make PM a brick instead of keeping stuff modular?
> What does the eclass lack which could be provided by PM?
Because trying to parse version formats correctly in bash is a huge
pain, and versionator doesn't get it right (never mind that the rules
were different when versionator was written).
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Ciaran McCreesh
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