From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:14:06 +0000 [thread overview]
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:11:47 +0000
Roy Bamford <neddyseagoon@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > Except that once we have EAPI in the file extension, we can change
> > anything we want in arbitrary ways without having to worry about
> > backwards compatibility, so we won't need silly hacks.
>
> Your response amounts to empty assertions. Never is a long time.
> It reminds me of a similar assertion that "640kB [of RAM] will be
> enough for anyone".
Er, no. Think about it. If EAPI is in file extension, the only concern
for backwards compatibility is not reusing an existing valid extension.
All we have to do is use a new EAPI value, and then we can change
whatever we like because non-supporting package managers will ignore it.
--
Ciaran McCreesh
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2009-02-23 2:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 8:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2009-02-23 8:52 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-23 13:45 ` Duncan
2009-02-23 9:25 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-23 10:02 ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-23 10:28 ` Douglas Anderson
2009-02-23 12:26 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-23 13:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 14:15 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-23 14:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 14:28 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-23 14:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 15:43 ` Steve Dibb
2009-02-23 15:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 16:13 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-23 16:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 16:48 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-23 17:01 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 19:30 ` Petteri Räty
2009-02-23 19:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 19:02 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-23 19:07 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 16:06 ` Peter Alfredsen
2009-02-23 16:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 19:22 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-23 20:51 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 20:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 22:15 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-23 22:16 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-23 22:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 13:55 ` Ferris McCormick
2009-02-24 14:14 ` Serkan Kaba
2009-02-28 13:04 ` Peter Volkov
2009-02-28 13:21 ` Matthias Schwarzott
2009-02-23 23:47 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-23 23:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 0:17 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 0:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 1:49 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 14:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:24 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:36 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:41 ` Robert Bridge
2009-02-24 16:15 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:21 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-24 16:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:33 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-24 16:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:42 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-24 16:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 18:56 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-24 22:58 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 16:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:45 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 21:17 ` Roy Bamford
2009-02-24 21:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 21:24 ` Robert Bridge
2009-02-24 22:11 ` Roy Bamford
2009-02-24 22:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2009-02-24 1:01 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-23 13:21 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 13:40 ` Thomas Anderson
2009-02-23 13:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 14:46 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 14:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 7:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 8:06 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-24 9:09 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 10:50 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-24 12:15 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 15:46 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 15:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:29 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-02-24 16:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 17:25 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 18:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 19:08 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 19:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:07 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 20:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:37 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 20:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:56 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 20:17 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 20:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 21:46 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 21:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 22:48 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 22:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 6:34 ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-25 15:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 9:29 ` George Shapovalov
2009-02-24 10:11 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-24 14:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:04 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 16:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 17:16 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 18:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 19:28 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-24 19:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 8:33 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-25 15:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 16:17 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 16:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 3:04 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 15:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 15:56 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 16:02 ` Thomas Anderson
2009-02-25 16:20 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 16:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 2:34 ` [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 Petteri Räty
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