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

[Alec Warner]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM, James Broadhead
<jamesbroadhead@×××××.com> wrote:
> On 12 March 2012 21:14, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, James Broadhead wrote:
>>
>>> I'm sure that it's been considered already, but what are the arguments
>>> against embedding the EAPI on a per-package (default) or per-version
>>> basis in metadata.xml. It IS metadata after all.
>>
>> You can find a recent discussion in bug 402167, comment #4 and
>> following. <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402167#c4>
>>
>> Ulrich
>>
>
> That makes sense (actually, it calls for metadata.xml to be converted
> to json even without bundling EAPI in there).
>
> If repoman validated metadata.json based on a clear definition in PMS,
> that would be a valid solution to the problem (that wouldn't require
> external libraries beyond python)
>

I'm not really convinced 'external libraries' is a critical problem;
it just seems like a nice thing to (try to) avoid.

-A