On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:06 PM, James Broadhead <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12 March 2012 21:14, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, James Broadhead wrote: >> >>> I'm sure that it's been considered already, but what are the arguments >>> against embedding the EAPI on a per-package (default) or per-version >>> basis in metadata.xml. It IS metadata after all. >> >> You can find a recent discussion in bug 402167, comment #4 and >> following. <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402167#c4> >> >> Ulrich >> > > That makes sense (actually, it calls for metadata.xml to be converted > to json even without bundling EAPI in there). > > If repoman validated metadata.json based on a clear definition in PMS, > that would be a valid solution to the problem (that wouldn't require > external libraries beyond python) >
I'm not really convinced 'external libraries' is a critical problem; it just seems like a nice thing to (try to) avoid. -A
