From: Alistair Bush <ali_bush@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x-modular.eclass: A modified approach to EAPI support
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:23:12 +1300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49B42930.50208@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b4c83ad0903070206l78e79fefl2247371c9a5a6376@mail.gmail.com>
Nirbheek Chauhan wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>>>>> On Fri, 06 Mar 2009, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
>>> Any thoughts?
>>> + *)
>>> + die "Unknown EAPI ${EAPI}"
>>> + ;;
>> Is is safe to assume that an unknown EAPI will provide a "die"
>> function?
>>
>
> If we get all Ciaran-ey about that, then we can't even assume the
> existence of a case statement in some future version of bash (which is
> required by some EAPI)
>
>
I think in these cases we just have to use common sense. If a function
is deprecated or "known to be 'on the way out'" then using them would
obviously be a bad idea. On the other hand even if they are used,
surely someone would test an ebuild and discover this case pretty quickly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-08 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-06 20:57 [gentoo-dev] x-modular.eclass: A modified approach to EAPI support Donnie Berkholz
2009-03-06 21:37 ` [gentoo-dev] " Christian Faulhammer
2009-03-06 22:33 ` [gentoo-dev] " Petteri Räty
2009-03-07 7:58 ` Rémi Cardona
2009-03-07 9:50 ` Ulrich Mueller
2009-03-07 10:06 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-03-08 20:23 ` Alistair Bush [this message]
2009-03-08 5:22 ` Donnie Berkholz
2009-03-08 10:38 ` David Leverton
2009-03-08 22:38 ` Zac Medico
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