* Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives
@ 2009-02-27 9:27 99% ` Caleb Cushing
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From: Caleb Cushing @ 2009-02-27 9:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Petteri Räty <betelgeuse@gentoo.org> wrote:
> My notes so far:
>
> 1) Status quo
> - does not allow changing inherit
> - bash version in global scope
> - global scope in general is quite locked down
>
> 2) EAPI in file extension
> - Allows changing global scope and the internal format of the ebuild
> a) .ebuild-<eapi>
> - ignored by current Portage
> b) .<eapi>.ebuild
> - current Portage does not work with this
> c) .<eapi>.<new extension>
> - ignored by current Portage
>
> 3) EAPI in locked down place in the ebuild
> - Allows changing global scope
> - EAPI can't be changed in an existing ebuild so the PM can trust
> the value in the cache
> - Does not allow changing versioning rules unless version becomes a
> normal metadata variable
> * Needs more accesses to cache as now you don't have to load older
> versions if the latest is not masked
> a) <new extension>
> b) new subdirectory like ebuilds/
> - we could drop extension all together so don't have to argue about
> it any more
> - more directory reads to get the list of ebuilds in a repository
> c) .ebuild in current directory
> - needs one year wait
>
I don't see the point of some of these... a shorter extension would be
nice but not really necessary.
.<eapi>.ebuild
so like .2.ebuild 'cause that'd work great?
smith-1.3.6.2.ebuild better yet vanilla-sources-2.6.28.2.2.ebuild
yeah I can see that working out... no it wouldn't
or maybe smith-1.3.6.eapi-2.ebuild
just too long
here's an idea, perhaps not a great one... but perhaps it'll make
someone else think...
how about this on the first line
# eapi-2
and instead of sourcing it, have portage match it with a regex first,
figure out the eapi, then source it.
I don't know if I really like like what I'm proposing, but I don't see
anything else that looks good.
--
Caleb Cushing
http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com
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