Re: [gentoo-dev] RFD: Replacement for versionator.eclass in PMS (for EAPI 7?)

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 22:14:39 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> As you may know, we intend to move the functionality of
> versionator.eclass to the package manager, possibly in EAPI 7.
> The following is what mgorny and myself have come up with, see
> bug 482170 [1], especially comments 15 and 16 there.
> 
> Currently there are 15 functions defined in that eclass, and we
> believe that it will not be feasible to implement all of them.
> However, several of the functions are similar to each other and can
> be combined. Two of them, namely get_version_component_range() and
> replace_version_separator(), account for the vast majority of what
> is used by ebuilds.
> 
> We therefore think that the following three functions would be
> sufficient to cover all ebuilds' needs:

What's the point, need or advantage in moving this to all-ebuild-scope?

Usually eclass refactor/api cleanup are done in a -r{n+1} while
deprecating -rn. This would have the advantage that you can quickly
post a complete implementation and get wider reviews.