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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1?
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 09:52:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGfcS_nRgRTKh=Ks916kbtjsAkFWjZjbOyjtdXAxm97AKHrLdQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F5CA874.6070209@gentoo.org>

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Patrick Lauer <patrick@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'd deprecate eapi2 too, we don't need 5 flavours around when we
> effectively only want to support one (and eapi0 in a few places)
>
> I wouldn't mind having a deprecation timeline for eapi3 too (now +6
> months maybe?), but there's no need to rush things.

Is there really much of a benefit to this?  I guess for anybody who
runs scripts to mass-manipulate ebuilds it might be helpful, but I
think all the package managers planned on supporting all the EAPIs for
quite a while longer.

I can imagine that this will lead to quite a bit of churn with
updating ebuilds and especially eclasses.  If a package doesn't
require a feature in a newer EAPI, what is the point?

Why not deprecate the x86 arch while we're at it...  :)

Rich



  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-11 13:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-11 12:01 [gentoo-dev] Deprecate EAPI1? Pacho Ramos
2012-03-11 13:28 ` Patrick Lauer
2012-03-11 13:52   ` Rich Freeman [this message]
2012-03-11 13:54     ` Samuli Suominen
2012-03-11 13:55     ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 15:14       ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-11 15:49         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 16:18           ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-11 16:27             ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 16:46               ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-11 16:52                 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-03-11 19:04             ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-11 19:11               ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2012-03-12  0:49         ` Brian Harring
2012-03-13 18:52           ` Zac Medico
2012-03-18 11:17             ` Pacho Ramos
2012-03-15 21:31           ` Maciej Mrozowski
2012-03-11 23:15       ` Francesco Riosa
2012-03-11 14:37     ` Patrick Lauer
2012-03-11 15:02       ` Thomas Sachau
2012-03-12  7:52 ` Pacho Ramos
     [not found] <41490c1dd7ca44bcbda73b2032982596@HUBCAS1.cs.stonybrook.edu>
2012-03-11 23:54 ` Richard Yao
2012-03-12  0:15   ` Francesco Riosa
2012-03-12  0:36     ` Rich Freeman
2012-03-12  0:23   ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn

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