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From: "Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto" <jmbsvicetto@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 20:03:18
Message-Id: 48B30FFB.8020009@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2? by Zac Medico
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4 Hi.
5
6 Zac Medico wrote:
7 | Hello again,
8 |
9 | I'd like to get some feedback about what people would like to have
10 | in the final EAPI 2. In planning for this EAPI bump, we should
11 | strike a balance somewhere in between everything that we'd like to
12 | have and whatever we can implement in a short period of time. It
13 | doesn't really makes sense to delay the EAPI bump too much for
14 | implementation of new features, since those features can simply be
15 | reserved for a future EAPI bump.
16
17 Are there any other features that should be included in EAPI-2?
18 Does anyone have any objections to the features Zac listed?
19
20 | The latest experiment EAPI is 2_pre2, supported by
21 |> =sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc7. Please refer to the html documentation
22 | [1] for addition information about the experimental EAPI extensions
23 | which are summarized here:
24 |
25 | * The 'doman' helper function recognizes language codes in man page
26 | source files, and uses them to generate an appropriate
27 | installation path.
28 |
29 | * Dependency atoms can be constrained to match specific USE flag
30 | states, including USE conditional expressions embedded within
31 | the atoms themselves.
32 |
33 | * The old src_compile phase function is split into separate
34 | src_configure and src_compile fuctions.
35 |
36 | * Default phase function implementations for the current EAPI are
37 | accessible via a function having a name that begins with default_
38 | and ends with the respective phase function name.
39 |
40 | * Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are
41 | accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi',
42 | followed by the EAPI value.
43 |
44 | * The default phase function implementation for the currently
45 | executing phase is accessible as a function named 'default'.
46 |
47 | In addition to the above extensions, I've received a patch for
48 | SRC_URI arrows [2] that I plan to review but haven't had time yet.
49 | Please file bugs for any additional features that you'd like to add
50 | and mark them as blockers of bug 174380 [3].
51 |
52 | Thanks,
53 | Zac
54 |
55 | [1]
56 |
57 http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi
58 | [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177863
59 | [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174380
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61 - --
62 Regards,
63
64 Jorge Vicetto (jmbsvicetto) - jmbsvicetto at gentoo dot org
65 Gentoo- forums / Userrel / SPARC / KDE
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