Donnie Berkholz wrote: > On 03:31 Thu 20 Dec , Luca Barbato wrote: >> Before spending even more time on it, could we try to come up with a >> definition of what eapi is, which problem is trying to solve and put >> that somewhere that isn't a long thread or an handful of threads >> scattered across mailing lists. >> >> Then we could think about this implementation detail if the best >> implementation for it is really sticking tags somewhere in the ebuild. > > I dug through some old mailing-list archives and found some threads from > gentoo-dev in July-August 2005 about EBUILD_FORMAT: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg02668.html > > And here's the post where vapier coined the term EAPI: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg02692.html > > It moved over to gentoo-portage-dev later on: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00203.html > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00207.html >
Sigh, ok, but > that isn't a long thread or an handful of threads > scattered across mailing lists. lu -- Luca Barbato Gentoo Council Member Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
