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On 09/28/2013 03:00 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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>>>>>> On Sat, 28 Sep 2013, heroxbd wrote: |
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>> I am revisiting this topic based on previous discussions[1,2,3]. |
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>> There seems to be a constant need for toolchain with a new EAPI. The |
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>> only block is "how can we upgrade from an ancient system?", "don't |
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>> bump or the upgrade path will be break". Let's figure out a solid |
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>> upgrade path consciously, with a test farm of ancient systems, and |
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>> then bump the EAPI of toolchain. |
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> The upgrade path is not at all what is blocking this. In its 20130409 |
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> meeting, the council has (unanimously) decided: "EAPIs 0 to 2 are no |
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> longer required for the upgrade path of users' systems." |
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> The reason why toolchain packages are still at EAPI 0 was explained in |
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> this posting: |
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> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.project/2369/focus=2377 |
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> AFAICS, changing that is entirely the task of the toolchain team. |
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Yes, it is entirely the task of the toolchain team, and looks like |
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heroxbd joined the toolchain team and would like to push the rest of his |
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team for this update. Something I greatly thank him for. |
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I don't think any dev wants to (or really could) force toolchain to |
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update individually, however, if motivated people want to join the team |
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and help, his question appeared to be will it be permitted to be updated. |
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- -Zero |
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