On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 02:41:13 -0400
"Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 05:12:28PM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote
> > This whole thing is just an exercise in trying to find excuses not
> > to use GLEP 55.
> 
>   A filename should not be (ab)used as a database.

You mean we shouldn't have name, version and format in there? Because
those are there already. All GLEP 55 does is make the format part more
specific.

> 1) Let's talk generic.  Right now, we're talking about EAPI.  In
> future, what other (meta)data and characteristics will we need to
> know?  What else will be tacked onto the filename?  EAPI, and any
> other critical (meta)data should be declared early on in the ebuild.
> That's what the ebuild is for.

EAPI is special. You need to know EAPI to be able to get the rest of
the metadata.

> 2) Any potential ebuild processor that's incapable of looking for
> regex "^EAPI=" in a textfile, amd parsing the numbers that follow,
> has no business being used to process ebuilds.

That doesn't get you the EAPI.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh