Gentoo Archives: gentoo-portage-dev

From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: [Fwd: Re: equery refactorization]
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 07:20:22
Message-Id: pan.2008.12.09.07.17.59@cox.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [Fwd: Re: equery refactorization] by Paul Varner
1 Paul Varner <fuzzyray@g.o> posted
2 1228770919.17376.10.camel@××××××××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on
3 Mon, 08 Dec 2008 15:15:19 -0600:
4
5 > Overall, I like where this is headed with just a few comments.
6 >
7 > 1. I would like to see /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym go away and the python
8 > modules moved into the python site-packages directory.
9 > 2. I do not want to see any of the long and short option names change.
10 > There are too many scripts out there that I do not want to break.
11 > 3. In reference to above, any changes to how equery is called by the
12 > user needs to still keep the old way of doing things. We can add a
13 > deprecation notice, but it will be a long time before we can actually
14 > remove that support.
15
16 As someone that has a bunch of his own scripts for such things...
17
18 ++
19
20 As long as there's a documentation of the new and a deprecation notice on
21 the old for awhile (say a year), go ahead and add the new options. Just
22 don't remove the old ones until that after that year of notice and
23 documentation, and preferably be sure you use the glep-42 news feature
24 for notification when you DO drop them. If I've not upgraded my scripts
25 in that time, and don't see or ignore that news item, well, that's my
26 fault.
27
28 Thanks! =:^)
29
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32 "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
33 and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman