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From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI checking in eclasses
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 21:46:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080104054622.GC14600@supernova> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49728.192.168.2.159.1199111645.squirrel@www.aei-tech.com>

On 09:34 Mon 31 Dec     , Caleb Tennis 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.

You can't treat EAPI as an integer, though, which the commit to the qt 
eclass did. You might want to do a case statement instead for string 
matches.

Thanks,
Donnie
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      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-01-04  5:49 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
2008-01-04  5:46 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]

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