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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:50:11
Message-Id: 484FC9CF.6010708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started by Bernd Steinhauser
1 Bernd Steinhauser wrote:
2 > Luca Barbato schrieb:
3 >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
4 >>> The point is to make pkgcore a better package manager by getting the
5 >>> developers to do some basic testing. We're not talking some obscure,
6 >>> weird bug here. We're talking a really obvious, major screwup that a
7 >>> couple of quick unit tests would catch straight away.
8 >>
9 >> No, you aren't talking, you are babbling about undefined flaws that
10 >> nobody can evaluate, for which you aren't providing a way to reproduce
11 >> it and possibly doesn't exist.
12 >>
13 >> lu
14 >>
15 > So in your opinion, the pkgcore maintainers should just say "Screw it,
16 > it was just Ciaran who said that." and move on?
17
18 He doesn't point any issue in particular.
19
20 > Why is "Create tests for EAPI=1 stuff." not a way to describe how to
21 > reproduce a problem?
22
23 because EAPI1 isn't specified completely so you don't have a large field
24 to cover but you also do not know the bounds of it.
25
26 Assuming that Ciaranm isn't just lying knowingly it's just plainly rude,
27 otherwise it is pure malice.
28
29 lu
30
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33 Luca Barbato
34 Gentoo Council Member
35 Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
36 http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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Replies

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Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2 - Let's get it started Bernd Steinhauser <gentoo@×××××××××××××××××.de>