From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PAPfF-000415-2o for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:12:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5049FE0A03; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:12:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tommyserver.de (tommyserver.de [85.14.198.51]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3D17E0974 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:12:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.178.22] (p4FDF66F3.dip.t-dialin.net [79.223.102.243]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by tommyserver.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 360E2E9D4 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:12:38 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4CC5AC8A.2050807@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 18:12:58 +0200 From: Thomas Sachau 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] Extending EAPI="4" References: <201010251524.24984.Arfrever@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=211CA2D4 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5DE5F789A4ED58EF7DD4466D" X-Archives-Salt: 04ba488b-09d2-490f-985c-5c8bed7b9b62 X-Archives-Hash: a3980ab942314d6ec469e7c396a2e5c0 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5DE5F789A4ED58EF7DD4466D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 25.10.2010 16:43, schrieb Fabio Erculiani: > Implementing a feature to just satisfy your tiny, corner-case (how > many people would take benefit out of it?) use case is just against > any software engineering best practice, and it's a good path towards > bloat and complexity. I think people can understand "python_abis_2_5" > well enough, besides being happy that their app will KEEP working. >=20 >=20 You are wrong at this part. Supporting dots in USE flags is not just a co= rner case for python packages. I planned to suggest the same for a future EAPI, when i got my = planned features for multilib-portage done (which will then natively support the installation = of packages for multiple versions of those different lang packages (like python, ruby, php...). Wh= ile it might be possible to read and understand, that 2_5 is intended to be 2.5, it is much easier to= understand and read, if you just write 2.5. --=20 Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer --------------enig5DE5F789A4ED58EF7DD4466D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iJwEAQEKAAYFAkzFrJAACgkQG7kqcTWJkGdF7wQAmgW/LpJrId8YtWBwwsjl9Nny Z5qPKzy/soF3EK8VxxntFNLjkh7t1AsMGCw92P7zxyNt9RED3TaQFefkuUJlHy6c EvN7Fz9XYCFnCOCInIHqHF8lItAjw7r1qZKz7hK4WJAPgcDFDTM5tdpplaHE8491 KLUROueZXrNoHKlj/Do= =otug -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5DE5F789A4ED58EF7DD4466D--