* Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)
@ 2007-12-18 7:17 99% ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2007-12-18 7:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
>>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> | Possibility to extend the behaviour of inherit and add new global
> | scope functions (as a result of not sourcing ebuilds with
> | unsupported EAPI).
It seems to me that this will inconvenience the users, in order to
solve a technical problem of the package manager.
Is this really the right way to go?
>> Making the file extension variable by adding "-<EAPI>" to it would,
>> in my opinion, make the portage tree a bit less clean and not as
>> elegant.
+1
>> Wouldn't software (like editors determining file type by looking at
>> what is after the ".") also need to be reworked to recognize a
>> variable string after "-" at the end?
> Yep, but that's not very difficult. And as a side effect, editors
> could then provide EAPI aware highlighting.
They can also do this if EAPI is set within the file.
Ulrich
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