On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:29:34 -0500 Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Ok. What's the EAPI for the following ebuild that's written in an > > EAPI that hasn't been published yet? And how would I extract it? > > > > # Copyright blah blah > > > > import vim-spell using language="en" > > > > Counterexample. How do you determine the eapi for the following file, > which uses an EAPI that is yet unpublished - but which specifies that > the EAPI NOT go in the filename: foo-1.2.ebuild
You're back to using a pre-source EAPI to extract the real EAPI then, which is the way things are currently -- and it means that any EAPI that specifies what you describe has to be sufficiently close to EAPI 0 that package managers that only understand EAPI 0 will work with it. > Making a decision to put the EAPI in the filename for all time doesn't > seem any less restricting than making a decision to put EAPI=1 or > EAPI="1" in the ebuild for all time. And the latter is a whole lot > less messy as far as I can see. It's an awful lot less restrictive. > So far the only objection I've seen to putting EAPI in the ebuild is > that at some point in the future we might want to do it differently. > Well, that is nice, but the same issue would apply to putting it in > the filename - we could want to change that someday too. And if we > put it in the filename why would we want to put it in a function or > whatever inside the ebuild as well? Wouldn't that just be redundant. If the GLEP is followed, you *can* change the filename to absolutely anything that isn't either *.ebuild or *.ebuild-(any-previous-eapi), or various silly things like metadata.xml and files. > And if the whole point of this is to allow massive changes to ebuild > format - why not wait until a need for such a change exists before > instituting it. Why not defer this GLEP until it has some benefit and > not just pain associated with it? There is plenty of need, as you would know had you either read the GLEP or paid attention on this list recently. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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