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Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sun, 07 Jun 2009, Steven J Long wrote: |
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>> I'd just like to know what the implications would be for users if we |
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>> kept the .ebuild extension, and a new PMS were rolled out stating |
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>> that the mangler were allowed to find the EAPI without sourcing (and |
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>> giving the restrictions) once portage 2.2 was stable, or the ability |
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>> to handle this backported to 2.1.6, and issued in a release? |
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> Even if we do only a one-time change of the file extension, can we |
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> ever get rid of the old extension? |
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unfortunately, no. |
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> Or are we then stuck with two |
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> extensions in the tree until the end of time? |
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> Let's assume for the moment that we change from ".ebuild" to ".eb". |
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better put this new ebuild type in a new tree; such a massive change |
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to the tree its not recommended. |
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> Then we obviously cannot change all ebuilds in the tree to ".eb", |
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> otherwise old Portage versions would see an empty tree and there would |
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> be no upgrade path. |
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leaving actual ".ebuild"s as they are now (good healthy state :)) and |
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making new development of ".eb" ebuilds happen in a new tree (I said |
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new tree, but it could be any way that hides those new ebuild to OLD |
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package managers) would help. |
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only newer versions of package managers are required to support this, |
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that is they will look for .eb (in new or current tree, not sure |
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what's best) and then for .ebuilds, and ideally this should be |
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transparent to old package managers and allow an upgrade path. |
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