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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] extending existing EAPI semantics
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:22:38
Message-Id: 20080611062231.5f935274@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] extending existing EAPI semantics by Brian Harring
1 On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:16:21 -0700
2 Brian Harring <ferringb@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Also, there is absolutely no reason for all future EAPIs to be a
4 > > superset of old eapis.
5 >
6 > .ebuild-$EAPI-n requires all *versioning rules* to be a superset of
7 > $EAPI=(n-1); if in doubt, re-read my example above.
8
9 No it doesn't. It requires that versions be mappable to a single,
10 enumerable master version format. Big difference. You could quite
11 happily add -scm and remove _p in future EAPIs, for example.
12
13 --
14 Ciaran McCreesh

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