From: Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:53:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200903212153.16091.patrick@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090321202147.329c889c@snowcone>
On Saturday 21 March 2009 21:21:47 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:37:12 +0100
>
> Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > To make our lives easier I would suggest deprecating EAPI0 and
> > migrating existing ebuilds over some time to EAPI1 or higher until
> > EAPI0 can be obsoleted at some point in the future.
>
> Uh. Why?
Because, as you have noticed before, developers get confused which eapi has
which features available. And eapi1 is a superset of eapi0, so we don't have
to rewrite tons of things.
> Introducing a policy encouraging moving things that definitely aren't
> in the least bit likely to be a system dep on a bump, sure. Making 1 or
> 2 the default for new packages, sure. But rewriting existing things?
> That's just an accident waiting to happen.
What kind of accident do you expect to happen?
Patrick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-21 20:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-21 17:37 [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0 Patrick Lauer
2009-03-21 19:45 ` Alec Warner
2009-03-21 20:15 ` Daniel Pielmeier
2009-03-21 20:45 ` Alexey Shvetsov
2009-03-21 20:57 ` Jeremy Olexa
2009-03-21 20:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-21 20:53 ` Patrick Lauer [this message]
2009-03-21 20:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-21 21:02 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-03-21 21:06 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-21 21:26 ` Alec Warner
2009-03-21 21:51 ` Patrick Lauer
2009-03-21 21:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-21 22:23 ` Alec Warner
2009-03-22 11:13 ` Dawid Węgliński
2009-03-21 20:39 ` Markos Chandras
2009-03-21 21:35 ` Peter Alfredsen
2009-03-22 8:41 ` Matti Bickel
2009-03-22 9:22 ` Peter Alfredsen
2009-03-22 10:58 ` EAPI roadmap (was: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0) Thilo Bangert
2009-03-22 11:12 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI roadmap Serkan Kaba
2009-03-23 11:40 ` Thilo Bangert
2009-03-22 0:03 ` [gentoo-dev] RFC: Deprecating EAPI0 AllenJB
2009-03-22 8:19 ` Robert R. Russell
2009-03-24 11:40 ` Luca Barbato
2009-03-24 14:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-25 9:19 ` Luca Barbato
2009-03-25 14:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-25 19:06 ` Maciej Mrozowski
2009-03-25 19:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-03-25 19:43 ` Alec Warner
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