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On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:24:39 +0100 |
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Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@g.o> |
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> > Apart from that, they however sit in the way of deprecating support |
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> > for that EAPI; at one point it becomes tedious to have to support |
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> > 10 EAPIs in our code (eg. Portage), hence we should aim to |
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> > deprecate versions of a few years old. Keeping old stuff around can |
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> > take its toll... |
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> Sure, but Patrick was explicitly talking about a burden on developers, |
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> not a burden on package manager implementers. |
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Well, that package maintainers are called developers on Gentoo isn't |
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helping the interpretation here; regardless of how one defines those, |
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both maintainers and PM implementers have to be taken into account here. |
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From quick thoughts the latter are a bit more affected than the former, |
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but perhaps Patrick can highlight what he sees as a burden. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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