Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 10:09 PM, Raymond Jennings shent...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: Finally, the gentoo developer quiz -should- still contain questions about ancient stuff. There are still EAPI0 and EAPI2 ebuilds in the tree

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-16 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/16/15 3:29 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: They are deprecated already: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/metadata/layout.conf Deprecated means stop adding them, and move away from them. Repoman will give you a warning about them. Is anything blocking deprecating EAPI4 in the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-16 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. phajdan...@gentoo.org wrote: On 8/16/15 3:29 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: They are deprecated already: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/metadata/layout.conf Deprecated means stop adding them, and move away from them. Repoman will

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-16 Thread Raymond Jennings
What's the best way to get rid of deprecated ebuilds? Do we just wait for their maintainers to migrate them or should they be sought out and flagged? I'm pondering searching for EAPI 0 ebuilds and filing bug reports on them. On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 6:57 AM, Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-16 Thread James Le Cuirot
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:52:06 -0700 Raymond Jennings shent...@gmail.com wrote: What's the best way to get rid of deprecated ebuilds? Do we just wait for their maintainers to migrate them or should they be sought out and flagged? I'm pondering searching for EAPI 0 ebuilds and filing bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Raymond Jennings
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Ian Stakenvicius a...@gentoo.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/08/15 06:43 PM, Johannes Huber wrote: Am 08/15/15 um 00:19 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Hi, While I have no objections about EAPI 4 deprecation (except

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Paweł Hajdan, wrote: Nothing seems to prevent doing the mass conversion first, deprecating EAPI 4, and then having a second, slower pass to make sure the ebuilds are using EAPI 5 as they should be. One way might be to add a TODO comment during mass conversion, which then

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-08-15, o godz. 09:06:48 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org napisał(a): On Sat, 15 Aug 2015, Paweł Hajdan, wrote: Nothing seems to prevent doing the mass conversion first, deprecating EAPI 4, and then having a second, slower pass to make sure the ebuilds are using EAPI 5 as they

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Daniel Campbell (zlg)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/14/2015 03:05 PM, Johannes Huber wrote: Hello Gentoos Penguins, if we want to attract more contributors we should consider to have one supported EAPI (latest). EAPI 4 is the last not marked as deprecated ( EAPI 5). The move in ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Johannes Huber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am 08/15/15 um 07:35 schrieb Michał Górny: This is a cheap hack, not a conversion. Proper conversion to a new EAPI is about using the new EAPI features. Not marking it 'done', and pretending there's nothing more to do. Yeah you are right.

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Andrew Savchenko
On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:12:42 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 8/15/15 3:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: Secondly, though, conversion to EAPI5 is not actually trivial, there are a couple of things, 'usex' related for instance, that also need to be taken care of. If it was just a matter of

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/15/15 3:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: Secondly, though, conversion to EAPI5 is not actually trivial, there are a couple of things, 'usex' related for instance, that also need to be taken care of. If it was just a matter of running a sed -e 's/^EAPI=4/EAPI=5/' on all in-tree ebuilds this

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 8/15/15 7:35 AM, Michał Górny wrote: Dnia 2015-08-15, o godz. 00:05:57 Johannes Huber j...@gentoo.org napisał(a): if we want to attract more contributors we should consider to have one supported EAPI (latest). EAPI 4 is the last not marked as deprecated ( EAPI 5). The move in ebuilds from

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-15 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 15/08/15 02:48 AM, Andrew Savchenko wrote: On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 08:12:42 +0200 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 8/15/15 3:16 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: Secondly, though, conversion to EAPI5 is not actually trivial, there are a couple of things,

[gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-14 Thread Johannes Huber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello Gentoos Penguins, if we want to attract more contributors we should consider to have one supported EAPI (latest). EAPI 4 is the last not marked as deprecated ( EAPI 5). The move in ebuilds from EAPI 4 to EAPI 5 is very simple replacing the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-14 Thread Andrew Savchenko
Hi, On Sat, 15 Aug 2015 00:05:57 +0200 Johannes Huber wrote: if we want to attract more contributors we should consider to have one supported EAPI (latest). EAPI 4 is the last not marked as deprecated ( EAPI 5). The move in ebuilds from EAPI 4 to EAPI 5 is very simple replacing the

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-14 Thread Johannes Huber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am 08/15/15 um 00:19 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Hi, While I have no objections about EAPI 4 deprecation (except concerns mentioned above), I see no strong need for this also. Just declare EAPI 5 as recommended. Having legacy support for EAPI

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-14 Thread Ian Stakenvicius
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 14/08/15 06:43 PM, Johannes Huber wrote: Am 08/15/15 um 00:19 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: Hi, While I have no objections about EAPI 4 deprecation (except concerns mentioned above), I see no strong need for this also. Just declare EAPI 5

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI 4 deprecated ban

2015-08-14 Thread Michał Górny
Dnia 2015-08-15, o godz. 00:05:57 Johannes Huber j...@gentoo.org napisał(a): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello Gentoos Penguins, if we want to attract more contributors we should consider to have one supported EAPI (latest). EAPI 4 is the last not marked as deprecated

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Erculiani
Hi, this is actually a fork of the HDEPEND thread (sorry for having diverged that much there). As I wrote in the other thread, the problem with PDEPEND is that there are two (or more) semantics: - PDEPENDs used as suggestions but yet being considered in the depgraph and actually installed.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread hasufell
On 09/02/2012 04:45 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: Hi, this is actually a fork of the HDEPEND thread (sorry for having diverged that much there). As I wrote in the other thread, the problem with PDEPEND is that there are two (or more) semantics: - PDEPENDs used as suggestions but yet being

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Why not introduce a global useflag such as suggested-deps which complies with GLEP 62 meaning it will be in IUSE_RUNTIME. How do you manage to fix the PDEPEND identity disorder problem then? Teaching devs to move to GLEP 62

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 16:45:12 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: Hi, this is actually a fork of the HDEPEND thread (sorry for having diverged that much there). As I wrote in the other thread, the problem with PDEPEND is that there are two (or more) semantics: - PDEPENDs used as

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:09:22 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Why not introduce a global useflag such as suggested-deps which complies with GLEP 62 meaning it will be in IUSE_RUNTIME. How do you manage

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:09:22 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote: Why not introduce a global useflag such as suggested-deps which complies

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:51:00 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 5:23 PM, Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:09:22 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:57 PM, hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:23:40 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: An effective SDEPEND implementation is definitely nowhere close to simple. Nor is presenting those dependencies to users. Indeed it's not, but we *do* have a reference implementation and lots of practical experience with

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: and we have worked out all the difficulties. Please elaborate. What difficulties? What did you implement other than plain SDEPEND? With what features? Lots of detail missing. Having said that, if we're going

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:46:19 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: and we have worked out all the difficulties. Please elaborate. What difficulties? What did you implement other than plain SDEPEND?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 19:08:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:23:40 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: An effective SDEPEND implementation is definitely nowhere close to simple. Nor is presenting those dependencies to users. Indeed

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:07:30 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 19:08:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:23:40 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: An effective SDEPEND implementation is definitely nowhere

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Erculiani
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:46:19 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: and we have worked out all the difficulties.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Michał Górny
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:10:38 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:07:30 +0200 Michał Górny mgo...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 19:08:33 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 17:23:40 +0200

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 21:38:26 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 20:46:19 +0200 Fabio Erculiani lx...@gentoo.org wrote: On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 8:08 PM, Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 5+: split PDEPEND introducing SDEPEND

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Erculiani
s/with/on/ -- Fabio Erculiani

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 15/12/2009 в 19:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen пишет: Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make the use of that support mandatory or optional? I think no. Without real testing that package works in prefix there is no need to bother and create illusion that it does.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Fabian Groffen
On 16-12-2009 09:29:07 +0300, Peter Volkov wrote: В Втр, 15/12/2009 в 19:59 +0100, Fabian Groffen пишет: Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make the use of that support mandatory or optional? I think no. Without real testing that package works in prefix there

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-16 Thread Jeremy Olexa
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:59:44 +0100, Fabian Groffen grob...@gentoo.org wrote: With the current route where EAPI=3 will simply be EAPI=2 + offset-prefix support, and EAPI=4 will be EAPI=3 + some other stuff, the following question arose: Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-15 Thread Fabian Groffen
With the current route where EAPI=3 will simply be EAPI=2 + offset-prefix support, and EAPI=4 will be EAPI=3 + some other stuff, the following question arose: Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make the use of that support mandatory or optional? In other words, one

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI={3,4} offset-prefix semantics mandatory?

2009-12-15 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Fabian Groffen wrote: With the current route where EAPI=3 will simply be EAPI=2 + offset-prefix support, That's not entirely right, as EAPI 3 will also include mtime preservation. Should an ebuild using an EAPI that has offset-prefix support make the use of that

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI extension to force rebuild of reverse dependencies

2009-12-06 Thread Zac Medico
Hi everyone, As you all know, it's somewhat annoying when a version bump in a package such as xorg-server triggers a need to rebuild reverse dependencies, and it would be really great if we could automate this. We already have something that's very close to a solution in EAPI 3, called the

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE

2009-07-07 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2009-07-05 13:36:24 David Leverton napisał(a): On Sunday 05 July 2009 03:33:54 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names of appropriate

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE

2009-07-05 Thread David Leverton
On Sunday 05 July 2009 03:33:54 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote: I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND, should be

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE

2009-07-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009 04:33:54 +0200 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org wrote: I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND,

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] [EAPI=3] Add approprietly prefixed values of IUSE_* variables to IUSE

2009-07-04 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
I would like to suggest that values of IUSE_* variables (whose names end with values of USE_EXPAND variable), after prefixing with lower-cased names of appropriate variables included in USE_EXPAND, should be automatically added to IUSE variable. Example: IUSE=abc IUSE_LINGUAS=en fr +la pl ru

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI cheat sheet for your desktop

2009-04-01 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 18:48 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:21 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi everyone, with EAPI 3 confusion about what is in which EAPI may increase, although appendix E of the PMS is quite helpful here. Anyway, something handy to put

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI cheat sheet for your desktop

2009-04-01 Thread Markos Chandras
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 11:37:58 Michael Haubenwallner wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 18:48 +, Ferris McCormick wrote: On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 19:21 +0200, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Hi everyone, with EAPI 3 confusion about what is in which EAPI may increase, although appendix E

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI cheat sheet for your desktop

2009-04-01 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Christian Faulhammer wrote: Have a look at URL:http://v-li.de/temp/eapi_cheatsheet.pdf, print it, fold it and tell me if you like or not (and especially what exactly). The Gentoo store should have a coffee mug with this. ;-) Ulrich

[gentoo-dev] RFC: EAPI cheat sheet for your desktop

2009-03-31 Thread Christian Faulhammer
Hi everyone, with EAPI 3 confusion about what is in which EAPI may increase, although appendix E of the PMS is quite helpful here. Anyway, something handy to put on your desk is my little EAPI leaflet which gives you all important (in my eyes) information in one leaf. Have a look at

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:39 Fri 05 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/4 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization of output file names by using a - operator. Is it useful to have both of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/4 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify adding a special gitweb-specific hack to the package managers?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:39:16AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 05 September 2008, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:39:16AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Buchholz wrote: How is using the eclass better for bandwidth usage? It won't allow for mirroring, and all users would have to checkout the repository from one place. Furthermore, you cannot have (signed) Manifests that allow integrity

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Buchholz wrote: How is using the eclass better for bandwidth usage? It won't allow for mirroring, and all users would have to checkout the repository from one place. Furthermore, you cannot have (signed) Manifests that allow integrity

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 05 September 2008, Mike Auty wrote: From what I understand of the idea, the eclass will just change the SRC_URI field from the first case (sf=tgz) to the second case (-). Eclasses have to be sourced before the SRC_URI is determined because they can already add (and presumably alter)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Alec Warner kirjoitti: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 05 September 2008 00:58:05 Zac Medico wrote:  * Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are    accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi',    followed by the EAPI value. Based on the lack of use cases or further responses to [1] I would suggest

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Please review and discuss the following features which are proposed for inclusion EAPI 2. As mentioned in my previous email [1], in planning for this EAPI bump, we should strike a balance somewhere in-between everything that we'd like to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-29 Thread Marius Mauch
On 08/26/05 Kristian Benoit wrote: On the EAPI subject Brian just brought back, I had this idea that we could use the same approch XML took with HTML. The ebuild could define which EAPI to use, but instead beiing a version, the EAPI would be an ebuild API definition. The equivalent to the

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-26 Thread Kristian Benoit
On the EAPI subject Brian just brought back, I had this idea that we could use the same approch XML took with HTML. The ebuild could define which EAPI to use, but instead beiing a version, the EAPI would be an ebuild API definition. The equivalent to the XML's dtd. The ebuild could point to a

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:49:35PM -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: On the EAPI subject Brian just brought back, I had this idea that we could use the same approch XML took with HTML. The ebuild could define which EAPI to use, but instead beiing a version, the EAPI would be an ebuild API

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:32:42 -0500 Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | A) what does xml bring to the table explicitly that is needed? A cool three letter acronym. Portage is currently lacking in this department. How are we expected to sell it to enterprise users if it doesn't use XML? --

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-26 Thread Dan Meltzer
Maybe I'm incorrect, but I believe Kristian was not saying use XML, but using xml as a comparasison (I know there is a better word.. but its escaping me... that comparassion thing on the SAT's). He's not saying to use xml, but in order to extend portage, extend it much like xml extends html, with

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-26 Thread Drake Wyrm
Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:49:35PM -0400, Kristian Benoit wrote: [snip] the EAPI would be an ebuild API definition. The equivalent to the XML's dtd. The ebuild could point to a directory named $PORTDIR/eapi/eapi-name/ which would contain a python

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:02:13PM -0700, Drake Wyrm wrote: Brian Harring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: B) EAPI is pretty much bash env template switching [snip] Perhaps the EAPI handling could be implemented using eclasses, rather than something in the deep, dark, python-based internals.