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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:07:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A34D1F.8070102@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48A34406.4060308@gentoo.org>

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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Zac Medico kirjoitti:
>>
>>  * Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are
>>    accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi',
>>    followed by the EAPI value.
>>
> 
> What's the benefit of this feature?

In some cases it might be convenient or desirable to use a phase
implementation from an older EAPI. However, I'm not sure how often
this will be useful, if ever. I added it at the suggestion of Brian
Harring.

Zac
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-13 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-13  8:18 [gentoo-dev] [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2? Zac Medico
2008-08-13 12:03 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-13 21:02   ` Zac Medico
2008-08-19 11:12   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-19 12:45     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-19 18:01       ` Arun Raghavan
2008-08-19 18:18         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-19 20:27           ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-19 20:43             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-21 15:35               ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-08-21 15:58                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-08-22  2:26                 ` Alec Warner
2008-08-23 14:15                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-09-01 14:31                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Peter Volkov
2008-08-27  3:15             ` [gentoo-dev] " Ryan Hill
2008-08-21 17:37         ` Thomas Anderson
2008-08-13 20:28 ` [gentoo-dev] " Petteri Räty
2008-08-13 21:07   ` Zac Medico [this message]
2008-08-13 22:55     ` Petteri Räty
2008-08-25 20:03 ` Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto

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