[gentoo-dev-announce] EAPI 4 available, allowed in the main tree, ~testing ebuilds

[gentoo-dev-announce] EAPI 4 available, allowed in the main tree, ~testing ebuilds

[Alex Alexander]

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Hello fellow devs,

We're pleased to announce that EAPI 4 is now available and allowed in
the main tree, in ~testing ebuilds :)

New features in EAPI 4 include REQUIRED_USE, pkg_pretend, REPLACING_VERSIONS
and REPLACED_BY_VERSION and various other interesting changes and fixes.

To find out more about EAPI 4, you can read the latest version of the Package
Manager Specification [0][1]. A shortlist of all the changes is also available
there [2].

Please note that at this moment only ~testing Portage supports EAPI 4. This
means that you'll have to avoid any stabilization of EAPI 4 ebuilds
until a newer version of Portage is stabilized.

Many thanks to all the people who worked to make EAPI 4 possible!

[0] =app-doc/pms-4_p20110118
[1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/4/pms.html
[2] http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/4/pms.html#x1-172000E

On behalf of the Gentoo Council,
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