From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21023 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Dec 2003 10:03:48 -0600 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 9245 invoked from network); 8 Dec 2003 10:03:47 -0600 Message-ID: <3FD4A0E0.3000301@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 11:03:44 -0500 From: Sandy McArthur User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20031029 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org References: <004901c3bc63$9c47ef10$9601a8c0@jason01> <200312061839.56139.george@gentoo.org> <1070782855.6073.441.camel@ht.gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <1070782855.6073.441.camel@ht.gentoo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.76.4.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=6.1 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on audrey.leeprinting.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-ng concurse entry Was: Updated Portage project page, ebuild conversion X-Archives-Salt: b937f915-3cb0-4405-8ce7-feadfbee0912 X-Archives-Hash: abea9d89a3a1e25d77dac82a14fff3d3 Daniel Robbins wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-06 at 19:39, George Shapovalov wrote: > >>Hm, isn't it a bit too late to change ebuild format, with us sitting on 7000+ >>ebuilds? The only reasonable way to do so is to make it structurally >>compatible and create a converter tool. > > It would be very difficult to get good results from a converter tool, > due to the many complexities of ebuild parsing. One transition methiod from one format to another I haven't seen is the idea that portage-old be made capable to convert ebuild-ng into ebuild-old until portage-ng is ready to be declared stable. I presume ebuild-ng will be more structured and thus easier to convert to a less structured format like the current ebuild format. This would make the convertersion tool's job easier and less error prone ... probably. Sandy McArthur -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list