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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] EAPI specification in ebuilds
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:23:08 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F84889C.4020803@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20356.26282.371543.987108@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de>

On 04/10/2012 09:58 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 10 Apr 2012, Brian Harring wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 08:43:55AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
>>> We could make the ([A-Za-z0-9+_.-]*) group "optional", but treat it
>>> as an error if the group is missing. That way, the package manager
>>> can detect invalid assignments earlier, and can skip sourcing the
>>> ebuild in this case.
>
> Currently there isn't any ebuild in the tree that assigns an empty
> EAPI, so I think we can neglect any performance issues.

My intention was to detect EAPI assignments containing invalid 
characters such as spaces or unicode characters. Either way, I agree 
it's not really a performance issue. If it makes the specification too 
complex for your liking, then I agree it's not worth doing.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-10 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-06  7:40 [gentoo-pms] EAPI specification in ebuilds Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-06 17:29 ` Robin H. Johnson
2012-04-06 17:32   ` Brian Harring
2012-04-06 17:33   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-06 18:13   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-06 18:08 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-06 18:57 ` David Leverton
2012-04-06 21:25   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-06 21:56     ` David Leverton
2012-04-07  2:44       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-10 10:53         ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-10 15:43           ` Zac Medico
2012-04-10 16:30             ` Brian Harring
2012-04-10 16:35               ` Zac Medico
2012-04-10 16:58               ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-10 19:23                 ` Zac Medico [this message]
2012-04-10 19:25           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-10 20:13             ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-10 20:16               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-10 21:19                 ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-10 21:41                   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2012-04-10 22:11                     ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-10 23:20                     ` David Leverton
2012-04-11  8:04                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-11 16:31                         ` Zac Medico
2012-04-11 18:02                           ` David Leverton
2012-04-11 18:22                             ` Zac Medico
2012-04-12 11:55                           ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-04-15 22:30                             ` Zac Medico
2012-04-15 23:12                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-05-13 18:23                             ` David Leverton
2012-05-13 19:00                               ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-05-13 19:11                                 ` [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 1/2] Clarify wording for EAPI parsing David Leverton
2012-05-13 19:35                                   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-05-13 19:40                                     ` David Leverton
2012-05-13 20:46                                       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-05-17 10:15                                         ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-05-13 19:12                                 ` [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 2/2] Require a space before the trailing comment David Leverton

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