Re: [gentoo-project] Re: Questions for candidates for Gentoo Council 2013/2014

[Anthony G. Basile]

On 07/03/2013 01:42 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jul 2013 08:46:01 -0400
> "Anthony G. Basile" <basile@××××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 07/01/2013 02:54 PM, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote:
>
>>   > 02. Will you vote for moving system packages (gcc, glibc etc.) to
>> EAPI >=3?
>>   >
>>   > 03. Will you vote for moving system packages (gcc, glibc etc.) to
>> EAPI >=4?
>>   >
>>   > 04. Will you vote for moving system packages (gcc, glibc etc.) to
>> EAPI >=5?
>>   >
>>   > 05. Will you vote for deprecation of EAPI 0 in gentoo-x86?
>>
>> Currently there is a lot of code written in EAPI 0 for the toolchain and
>> this code "just works".  Besides being able to build stock systems, it
>> is cable of handling cross compiling, multlilib systems, toolchain
>> hardening, and alternative libc.  A lot of utilities are built on that
>> codebase too, like crossdev.  It is hard to argue a rewrite here for
>> something that is not broken.
>>
>> I would not vote at this time for the deprecation of EPI 0.  I could be
>> persuaded otherwise by the toolchain herd with a plan.  I could also be
>> persuaded if there were some really pressing issues that argue "yes it
>> works now, but soon will hit a brick wall".  These would mitigate
>> against a hard "no".
>
> Paweł was nice enough to write a patch for us to get toolchain.eclass up to EAPI
> 5.  I believe it still needs some pieces like prefix support and I haven't
> reviewed it in depth but it looks good so far (and much simpler than I thought
> (oops)).  I'm planning on moving up an EAPI at a time, bumping it whenever we
> could use new features or people start hucking fruit.
>
>

Nice!  I'm impressed.

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Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D.
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