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

[Alexis Ballier <aballier@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, 2 Dec 2015 13:04:19 +0100
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:

> >>>>> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Alexis Ballier wrote:  
> 
> > 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.  
> 
> A proof-of-concept implementation for the two version manipulation
> functions is here:
> https://482170.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=418072
> Add some comments and you'll have a working eclass. :)

Yes, but I don't see the point of defining bash code in PMS and
copy/pasting it in every compliant PM, when said code used to be in
only one place. Sounds like a "regression" to me.


[...]
> Also version_test is missing, but the idea there was to avoid
> redundancy and use the implementation that already exists in the
> package manager (which does version comparison all the time). This is
> one of the reasons for moving it to the package manager.


well, then maybe version_test is the only one that makes sense to be
added to PM. Though it is unclear to me how to interface it: spawning a
python interp. every time the function is called doesn't seem to be a
terrible idea wrt performance.