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 1PAOHF-0002aQ-BJ for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:43:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7D0CCE08C1; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f180.google.com (mail-iw0-f180.google.com [209.85.214.180]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61A3E0912 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:43:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn37 with SMTP id 37so5083278iwn.11 for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:43:43 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.231.16.131 with SMTP id o3mr3771751iba.101.1288017823341; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Sender: lxnay@sabayonlinux.org Received: by 10.231.146.84 with HTTP; Mon, 25 Oct 2010 07:43:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201010251524.24984.Arfrever@gentoo.org> References: <201010251524.24984.Arfrever@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 16:43:43 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: tkFwrsGaAAVnzIp-T_F-V4SqZY8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Extending EAPI="4" From: Fabio Erculiani To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 60afdf59-9c2a-4ff2-bba6-59ce9db02f87 X-Archives-Hash: 5a07cfb24b44d130be43000dbf394c46 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. -- Fabio Erculiani