Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

On 08/26/05  Kristian Benoit wrote:

> 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 That way, there is no outdated ebuild format.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.

As EAPI is closely tied to portage internals (DEPEND handling for
example) that's not really going to work from within the tree. Otherwise
we could just distribute portage completely with the tree, no? Don't
mind having it pluggable inside portage, but as it can potentially
affect many areas I doubt that's realistic.

Marius

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