From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J59UW-0007RZ-D8 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:42:24 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBK0fNh2003054; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:41:23 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBK0c3Ts030500 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:38:04 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77022658E6 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:38:03 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 16:38:01 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) Message-ID: <20071220003801.GL24034@supernova> References: <200712172320.01988.peper@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200712172320.01988.peper@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id lBK0fNij003054 X-Archives-Salt: 56bcc4e7-e07e-45f9-8eaf-13d2b00db1f4 X-Archives-Hash: 3fbca75044a895c24ebf3ef4ae157b93 On 23:20 Mon 17 Dec , Piotr Jaroszy=C5=84ski wrote: > Abstract > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=20 > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for ebuilds (= for > example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). >=20 > Motivation > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D >=20 > Including EAPI in the ebuild file extension has the following advantage= s: >=20 > * Possibility to extend the versioning rules in an EAPI, and to use = them > immediately in the Gentoo tree. For example, addition of the scm s= uffix - > GLEP54 [#GLEP54]_. >=20 > * Possibility to extend the behaviour of inherit and add new global = scope > functions (as a result of not sourcing ebuilds with unsupported EA= PI). Here's some other ideas for how to express EAPI. What if we: Used EAPI-named subdirectories instead of tagging it into the filename? Used (and required) filesystem extended attributes? Stuck ranges into metadata.xml for which EAPIs applied? Thanks, Donnie --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list