On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 6:22 AM, Wyatt Epp wrote:
> Okay, this has been bothering mesorry if this is a sort of silly
> question, but why not just use the (already extant) metadata.xml for
> the...err, metadata about a package?
>
That's because package-manager critical information cannot be inc
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Richard Freeman wrote:
>
> glep55: See GLEP55. To summarize: The eapi is put into the file name so
> that the package manager knows the EAPI (and thus how to handle this file
> format). While it simplifies the eapi discovery this comes at a high price
> as there i
On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 15:56 +0200, Patrick Lauer wrote:
Thank you for collecting this up!
> parsers: The current practise of putting the eapi definition near the top of
> the ebuild, combined with the need to state it for all non-EAPI0 ebuilds,
> suggests that it can be parsed without having to s
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Markos Chandras wrote:
> I really dont like the idea of changing the file extension in anyway since
> .ebuild is something that defines Gentoo. It is like changing .deb for Debian
> :P. Somethings must stay untouched.
++
Sentimental value ftw!
/me wears asbestos u
> Hello people,
>
> as the discussion about glep55 has gone in circles long enough I decided to
> collect the various ideas presented around that theme complex and compare
> them in a way that might allow us to reach a sane decision.
>
> Since it has become quite a lot of text I've kept some parts
> glep55: See GLEP55. To summarize: The eapi is put into the file name so
> that the package manager knows the EAPI (and thus how to handle this
> file format). While it simplifies the eapi discovery this comes at a
> high price as there is no reliable way to find and validate all ebuilds.
i
Patrick Lauer wrote:
If I should have forgotten any approach or misrepresented one I'd
appreciate an updated or rephrased section so it can be easily
updated.
This keeps coming up for some reason:
parsers: It enforces some minor limitations, for example EAPI needs to
be unique and cannot be
Hello people,
as the discussion about glep55 has gone in circles long enough I decided to
collect the various ideas presented around that theme complex and compare them
in a way that might allow us to reach a sane decision.
Since it has become quite a lot of text I've kept some parts in sentenc
