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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass, git-2.eclass... git-r1.eclass?
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:03:09
Message-Id: 20130902190259.GA1762@linux1
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] git.eclass, git-2.eclass... git-r1.eclass? by James Cloos
1 On Sun, Sep 01, 2013 at 08:58:07PM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
2 > >>>>> "TW" == Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > TW> Also, please just call it git-3.eclass as it is a major change; any
5 > TW> other form of naming will introduce confusion (eg. -r1 < -2), also we
6 > TW> probably shouldn't change git-2.eclass as even when masked it doesn't
7 > TW> seem like a good thing to break its current API and documentation as
8 > TW> well as what actually works in the Portage tree.
9 >
10 > +1 on all of that. git-3 is a better name than using -r1.
11 >
12 > And leave git-2 there for at /least/ a year. There are a LOT of out of
13 > tree git-2 users.
14
15 The last time I checked, out of tree eclass users are not a concern for
16 how long we keep old eclasses in the tree. We only keep them until we
17 are sure there are no in tree users.
18
19 Thanks,
20
21 William

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