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On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:21:23 +0200 |
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Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@g.o> wrote: |
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> Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many |
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> people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order |
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> to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is |
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> only allowed to post a single reply to this thread in order to make it |
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> easy to read through. The existing thread should be used for actual |
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> discussion about the GLEP and the alternatives. This should be a |
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> useful experiment to see if we can control ourselves :) |
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> My notes so far: |
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> 1) Status quo |
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> - does not allow changing inherit |
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> - bash version in global scope |
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> - global scope in general is quite locked down |
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> 2) EAPI in file extension |
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> - Allows changing global scope and the internal format of the ebuild |
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> a) .ebuild-<eapi> |
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> - ignored by current Portage |
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#1 |
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Though I also wouldn't mind separate EAPI and ebuild-format versions, |
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EAPI limited to the stuffing and EBV for the bird. I'd expect the |
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number of times we'll need to make global changes will be few. |
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(fewer than EAPI changes anyways) |
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> b) .<eapi>.ebuild |
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> - current Portage does not work with this |
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#2 |
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> c) .<eapi>.<new extension> |
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> - ignored by current Portage |
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This would be #2 if I could think of a better extension than .ebuild |
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.esh |
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.gentoo |
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.rebuild |
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.fbuild |
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.eawesomeness |
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(not seriously) |
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> 3) EAPI in locked down place in the ebuild |
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> - Allows changing global scope |
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> - EAPI can't be changed in an existing ebuild so the PM can trust |
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> the value in the cache |
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> - Does not allow changing versioning rules unless version becomes a |
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> normal metadata variable |
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> * Needs more accesses to cache as now you don't have to load older |
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> versions if the latest is not masked |
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> a) <new extension> |
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> b) new subdirectory like ebuilds/ |
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> - we could drop extension all together so don't have to argue about |
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> it any more |
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> - more directory reads to get the list of ebuilds in a repository |
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> c) .ebuild in current directory |
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> - needs one year wait |
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#3 |
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