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>>>>> 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?

Ulrich