From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JTb3f-0001la-4p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:59:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65696E05F9; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41E1EE05F9 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (253.199.broadband5.iol.cz [88.100.199.253]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69B7D67F5D for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:59:40 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <47C29F97.5030206@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:59:35 +0100 From: Jakub Moc User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080211) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] The future of ebuild References: <94a0d4530802201240v19dde77vff199cb11ece0bbd@mail.gmail.com> <1203596946.3076.72.camel@localhost> <94a0d4530802240302v5eb3a6a4sb7dfa6a10784cef3@mail.gmail.com> <3c32af40802241143icd91093s224ab22e3a2137c@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <3c32af40802241143icd91093s224ab22e3a2137c@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: cd06a6f5-e63e-4a08-8a8d-56dc812ac446 X-Archives-Hash: a450013b143e01a25810f66ff345c9d4 Santiago M. Mola napsal(a): > This is not going to happen. "Migrating to Nix" means "rewriting the > distro from scratch". If you=C2=B4re interested in a distro built on t= op > of Nix, you can try NixOS (which looks really nice IMO). >=20 > Regards, > Santiago While we are switching the whole tree to Nix, I'd strongly advocate that: 1/ All ebuilds must be rewritten in whitespace [1]; that will have the=20 great side-effect that all those pesky whitespace repoman checks will=20 start to be meaningful finally. 2/ All eclasses must be rewritten in Piet [2] at the same time, so that=20 we make dev's life a bit more colorful once the former step. is=20 finished. There is already a platform-independent IDE ready for this=20 purpose after all [3]. Since the benefits of the above are so obvious, I suppose this doesn't=20 even require a GLEP and the porting work should therefore start=20 immediately to make it in time for 2008.0. Have a nice day. :P [1] http://compsoc.dur.ac.uk/whitespace/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_(programming_language) [3] http://www.rapapaing.com/piet/ --=20 Best regards, Jakub Moc mailto:jakub@gentoo.org GPG signature: http://subkeys.pgp.net:11371/pks/lookup?op=3Dget&search=3D0xCEBA3D9E Primary key fingerprint: D2D7 933C 9BA1 C95B 2C95 B30F 8717 D5FD CEBA=20 3D9E ... still no signature ;) --=20 gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list