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>>>>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2012, Brian Harring wrote: |
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> A hard rule there is a bit dumb, although frankly I don't hugely |
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> care one way or another- if we have it, extend it to the three |
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> rather than just paludis. Or drop it, don't hugely care. |
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> EAPI *does* need to be tightened to make clear the first char of |
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> EAPI can't be '-'; it's used now via the cache as a marker to |
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> indicate that it pulled the EAPI, but didn't know how to handle it. |
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> It's live and in use, and has been an undocumented requirement |
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> basically since day 1. |
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> No one is going to conflict with it, just best to explicitly note |
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> it's offlimits as the first char of an EAPI name. |
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Yes, and I wonder why there was resistance against my suggestion. |
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An EAPI name may contain any of the characters [A-Za-z0-9+_.-]. |
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It must not begin with a hyphen, a dot or a plus sign. |
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It's consistent with what we have for other names, like slot or |
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category: <http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-170003.1> |
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Ulrich |
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