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On 08/30/05 Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Monday 29 August 2005 22:52, Zac Medico wrote: |
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> > Brian Harring wrote: |
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> > > Please test this out; if you want to test the EAPI checking, tag |
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> > > EAPI=1 into an ebuild, and try making emerge bail. |
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> > Well, it bails too often. :) |
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> > It seems that an explicit integer conversion is needed for > and < |
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> > comparisons with mixed types |
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> > (2.0.51-eapi-awareness-emerge-int-conversion.patch). |
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> I don't think it is a wise path to interpret EAPI's as integers at |
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> all. There should not be guarantees of forward or backward |
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> compatibility between versions. Interpreting them as integers seems |
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> to imply that. Basically I think that EAPI could be anything wanted, |
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> similar to SLOTS. Of course using digits is easy for humans. |
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I've to agree with Paul here, portage should hold a list of all EAPI |
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values it understands, not a maximum value. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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