Re: [gentoo-dev] Ideas for a (fast) EAPI=3

[Thomas Anderson]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 09:42:29AM -0700, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 08:49 Sun 08 Mar     , Tiziano M?ller wrote:
> > So I think it's time for a short eapi bump with some distinct
> > improvements:
> >
> > http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pPAJXP6shYH78lCXeqRqCUQ
>
> - I understand the reasoning for the SRC_CONFIGURE_WITH blah stuff. I
> strongly oppose this implementation because it makes ebuilds less like
> bash scripts that are easy to understand. Instead I suggest extending
> use_with() and use_enable() to accept multiple sets of arguments
> (alternately, making custom, similar functions that will take multiple
> args). Combined with the addition of src_configure() in EAPI=2, the
> amount of code could be a large reduction from existing versions without
> raising the barrier to entry.

While I understand your concerns about the SRC_CONFIGURE stuff, there
are two points I'd like to make;
1) The barrier to entry is negligible. How much more difficult is it for
someone to learn what CONFIGURE_ENABLES=( 'foo foobar' ) ? I didn't find
it difficult at all(and I've used them).
2) src_configure is just one part; src_compile has uses as does
src_install. In fact, if you want to do patches, src_prepare would be in
there too. What I'm saying is that focusing on the one part(configure)
is ignoring the good part of the rest of the proposal.

Regards,
Thomas
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