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On 2017-08-16 05:56, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > Considering it says exactly the same for EAPI 5, this is almost |
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> > certainly a mistake - but I'd rather confirm this here before |
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> > changing the page. |
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> Unfortunately, information about EAPI 4 and 5 support is not entirely |
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> clear from the NEWS file, so one must look into the git log. Quoting |
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> bug 326459 comment 4 [1]: |
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> EAPI 4: pkgcore-0.6.5 (2011-06-22), which is the first version |
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> (correctly) supporting default src_install. There's another change |
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> for EAPI 4 in 0.7, namely removal of the AA and KV variables, but I |
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> think this can be ignored here (also it's not in the NEWS file). |
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> EAPI 5: pkgcore-0.9.3 (2016-05-28). NEWS says for 0.9 that it has |
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> "Nearly complete EAPI=5 support just missing subslot rebuilds." |
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> This was finally added in 0.9.3, "Add support for PN:slot/subslot |
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> and slotted glob targets." |
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> So yes, it appears that full support for EAPI 5 was added only in |
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> pkgcore-0.9.3, which supports EAPI 6 already. |
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Just to note, I consider pkgcore-0.9 to support EAPI 5 nearly as far as |
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PMS specifies. The news item you pointed out has more to do with adding |
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subslot input support for cli tools (pmerge, pquery, etc) which doesn't |
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have anything to do with PMS. |
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Tim |
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