Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

[Zac Medico]

On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote:
> Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as
> a parent function that call the underling function can solve most of
> the versioning/deprecation problems

I've overheard Arfrever discussing a similar approach in funtoo's irc
channel, where the ebuild would set a variable prior to inherit if it
wants to use a specific eclass API. For the python eclass, he's planning
to have ebuilds set the PYTHON_ECLASS_API variable to use the new API.
When the variable is unset, the eclass will default to the older API.
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Thanks,
Zac