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On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:16:46 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Why do you think I wrote the awful hack that is versionator? |
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Why don't you explain why, historically, you put that in the tree? It |
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would help us now if you were to simply record your mistakes for |
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everybody else to easily avoid. It's still being used in the tree and |
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should be discouraged. |
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> Anything that finally lets us kill that off has to be good... |
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Loosening VERSION requirements won't fix the problem. This will: |
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1) Discourage its use by putting a QA ewarn in the eclass. |
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2) Have all ebuilds converted either through QA bugs or a nice Saturday |
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afternoon coding spree. |
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3) Announce its removal. |
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4) Remove. |
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