>>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Fernando J Pereda wrote: >> > It seems to me that this will inconvenience the users, in order to >> > solve a technical problem of the package manager. >> >> Absolutely, +1. This does indeed sound like a technical issue; how >> would requiring a dev to manually mirror the EAPI in the filename >> extension provide any benefit over caching it behind the scenes (using >> the Manifest file or similar mechanism)?
> You are yet to show what kind of inconvenience to the users this > proposal will cause. One example was mentioned in this thread before: You cannot use "find -name '*.ebuild'" anymore. And as we have now learned that EAPI strings are not limited to digits (see ciaranm's message) and may even contain blanks (see grobian's message), we would have ebuilds with very strange filenames. Ulrich -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
