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Ryan Hill wrote: |
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> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:43:09 -0700 |
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> Steve Dibb <beandog@g.o> wrote: |
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>> Richard Freeman wrote: |
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>>> I still don't see why we need to be encoding metadata in filenames. |
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>>> PERL doesn't care what a file extension is, python doesn't care, |
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>>> bzip2 doesn't care, tar doesn't care, gzip doesn't care, and even |
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>>> ld-linux.so doesn't care. I'm sure that in at least some of these |
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>>> cases they end up parsing parts of the file twice - once to figure |
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>>> out what it is, and the second time to actually handle it. I'm |
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>>> actually hard pressed to think of any unix-based software that uses |
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>>> the filename to store a mandatory file format versioning specifier |
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>>> of some kind. |
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> |
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> $ ls /usr/lib |
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ldconfig ? |
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>> I have to admit I'm in the same camp with Richard, and don't |
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>> understand the necessity. I'm also opposed to creating arbitrary |
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>> suffixes to the ebuild extension, for cosmetic and compatibility |
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>> reasons. |
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>> Plus, I don't really grasp the whole "we have to source the whole |
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>> ebuild to know the EAPI version" argument. It's one variable, in one |
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>> line. Can't a simple parser get that and go from there? |
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> Not really. Let's play Guess the EAPI. :o |
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> 1. |
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> ----- |
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> EAPI=1 |
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> ---- |
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> 2. (with myeclass.eclass containing EAPI=2) |
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> ----- |
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> EAPI=1 |
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> inherit myeclass |
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Invalid |
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> ----- |
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> 3. (with myeclass.eclass containing EAPI=2) |
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> ----- |
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> EAPI=5 |
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> inherit myeclass |
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Invalid |
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> So you see, it's not as easy as a grep command. You need to source the |
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> ebuild to know how things like inherit will affect the environment. |
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> And without knowing the EAPI, you don't know which version of inherit to |
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> call. |
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It it isn't invalid already... |
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> (i hope i have this right. feel free to call me names if i don't) |
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Names! |
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lu |
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Luca Barbato |
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Gentoo Council Member |
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Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero |
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