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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI checking in eclasses
Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:06:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071231150659.1672b45f@snowcone> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49728.192.168.2.159.1199111645.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com>

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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:34:05 -0500 (EST)
"Caleb Tennis" <caleb@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Is it legal for an eclass to check the EAPI version (presumably by
> using the EAPI variable) and perform some dependent behavior based on
> what it sees?  I don't see any eclasses using EAPI for anything, so
> I'm curious.

Yes, so long as that dependent behaviour isn't intended to indicate an
error.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-12-31 15:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-31 14:34 [gentoo-dev] EAPI checking in eclasses Caleb Tennis
2007-12-31 15:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-01-04  5:46 ` Donnie Berkholz

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