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 1QcEa6-0007SV-Nd for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:34:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 64BE41C088; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:34:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 124D91C088 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:34:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf26 with SMTP id 26so1882199wwf.10 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:34:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:x-mailer:mime-version:content-type; bh=rIN78oCeCuOOK6t5HKSDNDc8Pj22rZ0ZoDhkjRWQhPg=; b=G611MxgTbm4LcMYsDODpxa+s+mdEK+AKlcBgS/+xuh3wt+ZLWoCQT3afOAHq3/nc+k 0isuxmuhDupmq07/timSd/ocOdfTGReYRjIxNG0RobkwxLvDiM6RN/0Vt57TtWoYPQu1 +oCsU1Zc6B89tGL41fL1cxGV3bj3eP6F0PEAQ= Received: by 10.217.0.211 with SMTP id l61mr1555961wes.73.1309430074237; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:34:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (cpc1-broo4-0-0-cust780.14-2.cable.virginmedia.com [86.4.215.13]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s47sm1062271weq.6.2011.06.30.03.34.33 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 30 Jun 2011 03:34:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 11:31:54 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-pms] Do we want an EAPI 5? Message-ID: <20110630113154.32b8db1f@googlemail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.9 (GTK+ 2.24.5; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Package Manager Specification discussions X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/X=4uOLz7.h0PMucj4RSriWA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: dfef93f8d6bc6684d4dc9793563b4fdf --Sig_/X=4uOLz7.h0PMucj4RSriWA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Should we start pushing for a reasonably quick EAPI 5? I'd see it as having: * The stuff that was left out of EAPI 3/4, which is to say :=3D/:* dependencies, and the IUSE_IMPLICIT stuff (especially since right now people are breaking the rules and implicitly using 'prefix' when they shouldn't, and the rules for (+) and (-) are largely useless without the stricter control). * Cleaning up some deprecated stuff (see recent bugs). * A replacement for versionator, since apparently versionator is still using (a subset of) the ooooold version rules. I think there was something else too, but I forget what... --=20 Ciaran McCreesh --Sig_/X=4uOLz7.h0PMucj4RSriWA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAk4MUJ4ACgkQ96zL6DUtXhEp4ACgglpS9QIl9Ss0fR97CYk6D6rD 1TsAmK2QgE3SsXrPY8D669qGrZyrjuw= =9E6N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/X=4uOLz7.h0PMucj4RSriWA--