* Re: [gentoo-dev] Collecting opinions about GLEP 55 and alternatives
@ 2009-02-25 21:09 99% ` Josh Saddler
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From: Josh Saddler @ 2009-02-25 21:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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Petteri Räty wrote:
> Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many
> people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order
> to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is
> only allowed to post a single reply to this thread in order to make it
> easy to read through. The existing thread should be used for actual
> discussion about the GLEP and the alternatives. This should be a useful
> experiment to see if we can control ourselves :)
>
> 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
> 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
Leave EAPI inside the ebuild. That's where I want to find it.
Oh, and as others have mentioned, CVS sucks for file renaming and
versions. Yet another reason to leave it inside the ebuild.
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