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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:03:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080314060324.6db5a0cb@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4255c2570803132114y18712eefue9238943d4031ce7@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:14:47 -0600
RB <aoz.syn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  non-system packages, the only thing stopping people from using
> > EAPI 1 where useful is ludditism.
> 
> While most of us appreciate your desire to move forward, ad-hominem
> attacks (however subtle) really only serve to damage your point.

You're aware that that's not his real name, right?

> That said, this is the typical developer-wants-shiny-object,
> engineering-wants-stability drama played out day after day in
> corporations worldwide, and nothing ever gets solved until someone
> puts up.

The stability issues, or lack there-of, in EAPI 1 are well understood
by those of us who were behind deciding what went into EAPI 1. There is
no issue with using EAPI 1 where appropriate for non-system packages.
EAPI 1 is a small, well defined, well understood set of additions to
EAPI 0.

> Please - for the rest of the community's sake, get over
> yourselves and your high ideals and spend some of this energy doing
> something positive.  Like pushing for ratification/completion of
> EAPI=0 so none of you have room to complain.

Really, ratification of EAPI 0 doesn't affect any of this. It makes no
more sense to say that we can't use EAPI 1 until EAPI 0 is ratified
than it does to say that we can't use EAPI 0 until EAPI 0 is ratified.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-14  6:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-14  2:29 [gentoo-dev] FYI clarifications to skel.ebuild EAPI usage Petteri Räty
2008-03-14  2:51 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2008-03-14  4:14   ` RB
2008-03-14  6:03     ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2008-03-14  9:34 ` Bernd Steinhauser

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