On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 12:24:18 +0200 Ulrich Mueller wrote: > >>>>> On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > > On Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:52:07 +0200 > > Michał Górny wrote: > >> > * Get a versionator replacement into the PM > >> > >> Why are we trying to make PM a brick instead of keeping stuff > >> modular? What does the eclass lack which could be provided by PM? > > > Because trying to parse version formats correctly in bash is a huge > > pain, and versionator doesn't get it right (never mind that the > > rules were different when versionator was written). > > Right. Also the code for version handling is already implemented in > package managers. So it appears natural to make it available to the > ebuild environment, instead of (imperfectly) duplicating it in an > eclass. True. But going this way, I'd say we should also move get_libdir into PM to make it consistent with econf. I'm not sure whether it will work fine with multilib then, however. -- Best regards, Michał Górny