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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI placement
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:53:30
Message-Id: 20071212225031.55b44159@blueyonder.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI placement by Carsten Lohrke
1 On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 23:14:24 +0100
2 Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o> wrote:
3 > I disagree here. It would be annoying and possibly even hindering in
4 > future not being able to use higher EAPI features in eclasses. Point
5 > is the eclass has to check, if the author of an ebuild sets another
6 > EAPI and throw an error, in this case.
7
8 There is no way for an eclass to throw an error. Nor, with the current
9 way Portage implements EAPI, is there a way to add such a way.
10
11 > The most basic issue, which we didn't even discuss yet, afaik, is how
12 > to make every developer aware which feature belongs to which EAPI. I
13 > freely admit, I do not know that. Is there a list somewhere?
14
15 It's in PMS. svn co http://svn.repogirl.net/pms for a copy.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI placement Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI placement Carsten Lohrke <carlo@g.o>