On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:11:38 +0200
Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >>>>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> > * Get a versionator replacement into the PM
> >> 
> >> Given the long time it's been in limbo I doubt that this will be a
> >> quick feature. (But I'll be glad if you convince me of the
> >> opposite.)
> 
> > I thought we just didn't have that because we couldn't add new
> > global scope functions.
> 
> But can we already for EAPI 5? Wouldn't the following:
> 
>    EAPI=5
>    MY_PV=$(new_pm_version_mangler_function ${PV})
> 
> still fail for old package managers that don't implement EAPI parsing?

Didn't the Council effectively vote to ignore that problem?

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh