Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Tightening EAPI rules

[Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:24:39 +0100
Dirkjan Ochtman <djc@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> > Apart from that, they however sit in the way of deprecating support
> > for that EAPI; at one point it becomes tedious to have to support
> > 10 EAPIs in our code (eg. Portage), hence we should aim to
> > deprecate versions of a few years old. Keeping old stuff around can
> > take its toll...
> 
> Sure, but Patrick was explicitly talking about a burden on developers,
> not a burden on package manager implementers.

Well, that package maintainers are called developers on Gentoo isn't
helping the interpretation here; regardless of how one defines those,
both maintainers and PM implementers have to be taken into account here.

From quick thoughts the latter are a bit more affected than the former,
but perhaps Patrick can highlight what he sees as a burden.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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