[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

[Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@opersys.com>]

On the EAPI subject Brian just brought back, I had this idea that we
could use the same approch XML took with HTML.

The ebuild could define which EAPI to use, but instead beiing a version,
the EAPI would be an ebuild API definition. The equivalent to the XML's
dtd. The ebuild could point to a directory named
$PORTDIR/eapi/<eapi-name>/ which would contain a python script named
<eapi-name>.py. If not already loaded, that plugable eapi would be
loaded before processing the ebuild.

That way, there is no outdated ebuild format. There is just a default
format which is the actual format.

It could also be an XML defining the ebuild's build sequence and other
particularities a group of ebuild could have.

Kristian

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