[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: A few questions to our nominees

[Tiziano Müller]

Jan Kundrát wrote:

> Tiziano Müller wrote:
>> Having the EAPI versioned like this: X.Y where X is the postfix part of
>> the ebuild (foo-1.0.ebuild-X) and Y the "EAPI=Y" in the ebuild itself we
>> could increment Y in case the changes to the EAPI don't break sourcing
>> (again: a package manager will have to mask those ebuilds) while changes
>> breaking the sourcing of the ebuild need an increment of X to avoid that
>> pm's not being able to even source such an ebuild still can mask it
>> properly (or just ignore it).
>
> What benefits would that offer?

This depends on how we want to "drive" our development process.
The scheme I described would allow us to make many small improvements (given
they don't break sourcing of the builds) while the sole postfix-versioning
of the EAPI seems to be a model with less big changes.


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