Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:24:32
Message-Id: 20081005152420.1d1e3256@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses by Alexis Ballier
1 On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 16:15:46 +0200
2 Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o> wrote:
3 > An eapi.eclass with such functions and lists of eapi & features
4 > maintained there could help though.
5
6 The problem is, 'features' change between EAPIs. For example, all three
7 EAPIs have src_compile, but it does different things for all three. One
8 can't assume that a feature working for current EAPIs will carry on
9 working for future EAPIs, and even if it does there can be other
10 interactions that break.
11
12 > An EXPORT_FUNCTIONS ignoring any function its doesn't know for its
13 > eapi would help too.
14
15 An EXPORT_FUNCTIONS ignoring incorrect usage makes one less place
16 checking for eclass screwups...
17
18 --
19 Ciaran McCreesh

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 and src_configure in eclasses Alexis Ballier <aballier@g.o>