Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD : .ebuild is only bash

[Michał Górny]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 04:57:04 +1300
Kent Fredric <kentfredric@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 12 March 2012 22:37, Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote:
> > Ebuilds *are* bash.  There isn't ever going to be a PMS labeled
> > xml format that is known as ebuilds... that's just pragmatic reality
> > since such a beast is clearly a seperate format (thus trying to call
> > it an 'ebuild' is dumb, confusing, and counter productive).
>
>
> I think this notion should be concluded before we continue debating as
> to how best to implement EAPI declarations.
>
> Is it really so fixed that ".ebuild" will only ever be bash ?
>
> If thats the case, then G55 ( or something similar ) is practically
> guaranteed as soon as we want something non-bash.

Maybe instead of per-EAPI suffix change, we'd want to prepend the
suffix with something special whenever the actual format changes.

In other words, if EAPI 15 introduces XML-based syntax, we start
using .xml.ebuild. If EAPI 7 introduces bash4 in global scope (still
don't see much reason for it), we use .bash4.ebuild.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny