Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH v3]] versions: Drop non-PMS "cvs." prefix in ${PV}

[Zac Medico]

On 11/27/2017 03:01 PM, gmt@×××××.us wrote:
> From: "Gregory M. Turner" <gmt@×××××××.net>
>
> This feature was introduced 12 years ago in (the cvs commit
> corresponding to the git commit) 9f3a46665c.  There are a lot
> of reasons not to keep it around:
>
>   o PMS permits no such prefix in ${PV}
>   o Apparently nobody uses it (perhaps nobody /ever/ used it)
>   o It special-cases cvs, which nobody uses, either, in 2017
>   o Almost* causes ambiguity between ${PN} and ${PV} in ${P} if
>     some future EAPI tried to support both this and dots in
>     package names simultaneously.
>
> Therefore, remove it from from the "_v" regular expression,
> renumber hard-coded group indexes and nuke corresponding tests.
>
> *PMS would technically avoid abiguity as §3.1.2 requires ${PV}
> to "win" any such conflict over contested bits in the middle of
> ${P}.  However, clearly it's prefereable for this rule to be as
> redundant as possible.
>
> Note: this is my 3rd spin of this commitmsg; it's coming along
> nicely I think :P
>
> Signed-off-by: Gregory M. Turner <gmt@×××××××.net>

Thanks, merged:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=77d8abd747a15f90d7a45c334efecaf47261501a

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Thanks,
Zac