Re: [gentoo-dev] mercurial.eclass: change clone destination

[Petteri Räty]

On 11/06/2010 11:22 AM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm sending this patch for discussion, what it changes? The change is to where
> the final clone of repository will be placed, it used to be ${WORKDIR}/${module}
> (where module usually is the last component of source URI) to ${WORKDIR}/${P}
> (essentially ${S}). This has few effects:
>  - ebuilds using mercurial.eclass don't need to set S any longer
>  - mercurial.eclass behaves more like git.eclass
>  - it breaks all existing ebuilds using this eclass
>

Which means that the doing the chance is not allowed as eclasses must
remain backwards compatible.

Regards,
Petteri