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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:56:07
Message-Id: 506719B3.1060900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Initial python-r1.eclass & distutils-r1.eclass by Ian Stakenvicius
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4 On 09/29/2012 05:50 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
5 > On 29/09/12 11:45 AM, hasufell wrote:
6 >> On 09/29/2012 05:37 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
7 >
8 >>> There isn't so much a problem with the current
9 >>> python-distutils-ng eclass but rather it's to expand it to a
10 >>> more comprehensive replacement for both distutils and python
11 >>> eclasses. In order to do that efficiently, most of the core
12 >>> functionality should be moved so that the new distutils is more
13 >>> like a wrapper to the new python.
14 >
15 >>> This could certainly be done by patching the existing eclass,
16 >>> but mgorny wants to use new eclass names instead of keeping the
17 >>> current one. Hence the rename. I think that's about it..
18 >
19 >
20 >> In that case we are missing 95% of the features of
21 >> python.eclass.
22 >
23 >
24 > Aha, but do we really -need- 95% of the features?
25
26 Yeah, maybe not.
27
28 But that should be discussed beforehand imo. So that we really design
29 this eclass together. Otherwise I fear we will end up getting a 4th
30 implementation...
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