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From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [PATCH] eutils.eclass: In EAPI conditionals, replace "has" by case statements.
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 13:50:29 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan$e99e6$b7c671a8$38b0e92$ca469a30@cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 22107.62027.57796.708914@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de

Ulrich Mueller posted on Mon, 30 Nov 2015 07:52:59 +0100 as excerpted:

> It is slightly more complicated to match multiple patterns with [[ ]]
> because it requires multiple conditions, regexps, or extglob. We could 
of
> course use a bracket expression like [[ ${EAPI:-0} = [012345] ]] but I
> find it ugly in this context (and it won't be able to check for EAPI
> 10 ;)
> ).

Of course we could switch to abc... after ...789, instead of switching to 
double-digits.  And then to ABC... which should cover us for a few 
years...

If gentoo's still around and still using compatible EAPIs after Z... 
that's a problem we'll be lucky to have! =:^)

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman



      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-01 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-29 13:29 [gentoo-dev] eutils.eclass: further cleanup for EAPI 6 Ulrich Mueller
2015-11-29 13:29 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 1/2] eutils.eclass: Disable epatch_user in " Ulrich Müller
2015-11-29 13:31 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] eutils.eclass: Move all deprecated functions to the end Ulrich Müller
2015-11-29 16:48 ` [gentoo-dev] [PATCH] eutils.eclass: In EAPI conditionals, replace "has" by case statements Ulrich Mueller
2015-11-29 23:29   ` Davide Pesavento
2015-11-30  6:52     ` Ulrich Mueller
2015-11-30  9:47       ` Michał Górny
2015-11-30 17:33       ` Davide Pesavento
2015-12-01 13:50       ` Duncan [this message]

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