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On 12/31/10 12:02, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> after approval of EAPI 4, there are now 5 different EAPIs available, |
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> and it's hard to remember what features are offered by which EAPI. |
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> So maybe it's about time that we deprecate EAPIs 0 and 1 for new |
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> ebuilds. As a first step, a warning could be added to repoman that |
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> would be triggered whenever a new ebuild with an EAPI less than 2 is |
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> committed. |
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That's a good idea. |
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As long as there's a clean upgrade path from eapi0 left I'm all for it |
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(and that is fragile - for example bash-completion has no eapi0 versions |
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left, so currently it's really ugly to upgrade portage on an old install) |
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> At a later time, the warning could be changed to an error. When most |
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> of the tree has been updated to EAPI 2 or newer, we could also think |
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> about actively converting the remaining ebuilds. (Currently this |
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> doesn't look feasible though, as about half of the tree is still at |
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> EAPI=0. [1]) |
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Since there's currently no need many ebuilds have never been upgraded. |
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If people started actively working on it we could get that done in a |
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short timeframe - but then I wonder if it's worth the effort. |
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