[gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPIs 0 and 1?

[Ulrich Mueller]

Hi,

after approval of EAPI 4, there are now 5 different EAPIs available,
and it's hard to remember what features are offered by which EAPI.

So maybe it's about time that we deprecate EAPIs 0 and 1 for new
ebuilds. As a first step, a warning could be added to repoman that
would be triggered whenever a new ebuild with an EAPI less than 2 is
committed.

At a later time, the warning could be changed to an error. When most
of the tree has been updated to EAPI 2 or newer, we could also think
about actively converting the remaining ebuilds. (Currently this
doesn't look feasible though, as about half of the tree is still at
EAPI=0. [1])

Opinions?

Ulrich

[1] <http://blogs.gentoo.org/alexxy/2010/11/06/some-interesting-stats-about-gentoo-portage-tree/>