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Hi, |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o>: |
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> Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many |
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> people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order |
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> to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is |
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> only allowed to post a single reply to this thread in order to make it |
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> easy to read through. The existing thread should be used for actual |
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> discussion about the GLEP and the alternatives. This should be a |
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> useful experiment to see if we can control ourselves :) |
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Thanks. |
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> 2) EAPI in file extension |
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> - Allows changing global scope and the internal format of the ebuild |
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> a) .ebuild-<eapi> |
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> - ignored by current Portage |
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> b) .<eapi>.ebuild |
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> - current Portage does not work with this |
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> c) .<eapi>.<new extension> |
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> - ignored by current Portage |
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All of them are ugly as hell. Though a) has my preference because of |
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the added flexibility. Can we use cool names instead of numbers as |
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eapi or omit the dash? => .ebuild3 or .ebuild-upyours |
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> 3) EAPI in locked down place in the ebuild |
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No, you never know when you need the flexibility. |
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V-Li |
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Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project |
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<URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode |
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<URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/> |
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