From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M64l1-0002Lp-Nt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 May 2009 15:28:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C4301E0370; Mon, 18 May 2009 15:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.39]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77A35E0370 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 15:28:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from epia.jer-c2.orkz.net (atwork-106.r-212.178.112.atwork.nl [212.178.112.106]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr19.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n4IFS19F011669 for ; Mon, 18 May 2009 17:28:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jer@gentoo.org) Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 17:28:00 +0200 From: Jeroen Roovers To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: versionator.eclass terminator, was [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 55 updated Message-ID: <20090518172800.7576c34a@epia.jer-c2.orkz.net> In-Reply-To: <20090518161646.2c29b637@snowcone> References: <7c612fc60905170920k22189731i2540514e24e60959@mail.gmail.com> <18960.18295.65849.57779@a1ihome1.kph.uni-mainz.de> <4A104BCE.7000001@gentoo.org> <4A107F05.7020001@gentoo.org> <20090517222016.3164b564@snowmobile> <4A1089E6.7070909@gentoo.org> <12688336.dTPDegVI1m@news.friendly-coders.info> <20090518161646.2c29b637@snowcone> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Archives-Salt: f006953d-9f34-4ec9-982d-7a7c9175d73d X-Archives-Hash: d85339570e8f6e6aae02079f0c6fd4b5 On Mon, 18 May 2009 16:16:46 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Why do you think I wrote the awful hack that is versionator? Why don't you explain why, historically, you put that in the tree? It would help us now if you were to simply record your mistakes for everybody else to easily avoid. It's still being used in the tree and should be discouraged. > Anything that finally lets us kill that off has to be good... Loosening VERSION requirements won't fix the problem. This will: 1) Discourage its use by putting a QA ewarn in the eclass. 2) Have all ebuilds converted either through QA bugs or a nice Saturday afternoon coding spree. 3) Announce its removal. 4) Remove.