From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J5FLu-000212-08 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:57:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lBK6uws4022202; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:56:58 GMT Received: from smtp-out4.libero.it (smtp-out4.libero.it [212.52.84.46]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lBK6su7i019687 for ; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:54:56 GMT Received: from mailrelay12.libero.it (192.168.32.131) by smtp-out4.libero.it (7.3.120) id 4628C883009D8FA9 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:54:56 +0100 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAM6gaUeXORDv/2dsb2JhbAAIqUc Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.0.6]) ([151.57.16.239]) by outrelay-b12.libero.it with ESMTP; 20 Dec 2007 07:54:56 +0100 Message-ID: <476A113D.9080908@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2007 07:52:45 +0100 From: Luca Barbato User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071127) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI) References: <200712172320.01988.peper@gentoo.org> <20071220003801.GL24034@supernova> <4769D3F2.1030204@gentoo.org> <20071220040209.GN24034@supernova> In-Reply-To: <20071220040209.GN24034@supernova> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: add57c9d-8bde-420a-aff0-777307a13887 X-Archives-Hash: 80a379322f9d7b77c15ce1c23ef3b653 Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 03:31 Thu 20 Dec , Luca Barbato wrote: >> Before spending even more time on it, could we try to come up with a >> definition of what eapi is, which problem is trying to solve and put >> that somewhere that isn't a long thread or an handful of threads >> scattered across mailing lists. >> >> Then we could think about this implementation detail if the best >> implementation for it is really sticking tags somewhere in the ebuild. > > I dug through some old mailing-list archives and found some threads from > gentoo-dev in July-August 2005 about EBUILD_FORMAT: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg02668.html > > And here's the post where vapier coined the term EAPI: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg02692.html > > It moved over to gentoo-portage-dev later on: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg00203.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg00207.html > Sigh, ok, but > that isn't a long thread or an handful of threads > scattered across mailing lists. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list