Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Characters allowed in EAPI names
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:46:56
Message-Id: 20120228074551.5158621b@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Characters allowed in EAPI names by Ulrich Mueller
1 On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 08:40:05 +0100
2 Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
3 > >>>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, David Leverton wrote:
4 > > I think the logic behind that is that an EAPI defined outside PMS
5 > > wouldn't be bound by PMS's rules anyway, and the EAPIs defined
6 > > inside PMS are explicitly listed so there's not much point giving a
7 > > general syntactic rule as well [...]
8 >
9 > If we follow this logic, then the following sentence should be removed
10 > from PMS:
11 >
12 > "EAPIs whose value starts with the string paludis- are reserved for
13 > experimental use by the Paludis package manager."
14
15 Don't tell anyone, but that's mostly just in there because some people
16 insisted that EAPIs were numbers (and thus comparable), so I wanted an
17 explicit mention of one that wasn't.
18
19 --
20 Ciaran McCreesh

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