Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: initial EAPI awareness

[Marius Mauch]

On 08/30/05  Brian Harring wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:38:16PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> > On 08/30/05  Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> >
> > > On Monday 29 August 2005 22:52, Zac Medico wrote:
> > > > Brian Harring wrote:
> > > > > Please test this out; if you want to test the EAPI checking,
> > > > > tag EAPI=1 into an ebuild, and try making emerge bail.
> > > >
> > > > Well, it bails too often. :)
> > > >
> > > > It seems that an explicit integer conversion is needed for > and
> > > > < comparisons with mixed types
> > > > (2.0.51-eapi-awareness-emerge-int-conversion.patch).
> > >
> > > I don't think it is a wise path to interpret EAPI's as integers at
> > > all.  There should not be guarantees of forward or backward
> > > compatibility  between versions. Interpreting them as integers
> > > seems to imply that.  Basically I think that EAPI could be
> > > anything wanted, similar to SLOTS.  Of course using digits is easy
> > > for humans.
> >
> > I've to agree with Paul here, portage should hold a list of all EAPI
> > values it understands, not a maximum value.
> Stable knows of one version- so containment check versus > is moot;
> negated values are disallowed for eapi anyways.
> Note that the rewrite will do containment tests instead, but rewrite
> will also support eapi1 and eapi0 rather then just one.

Problem is that you then rely on python always evaluating "somestring" >
0 as True which I don't think is a good idea (it holds true even for "0"
> 0), if you treat 0 as a string you get problems (as some strings are
> "smaller" than 0) and you can't convert all strings to ints.

What's the point of using > anyway?

Marius

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