Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > [...] >> And finally, as already pointed out by Rich, you should not talk about >> any specific EAPI you like/prefer/want to be used everyhwere, but >> instead about the issue you want to solve. So just point out

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > That time you think you are saving, will be need to be lost if, for > example, some QA policy appears in the future to move to try to run > tests in parallel when possible, or force verbose output. So you're suggesting that I should invest 15

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 17:15 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: [...] > I am not talking about hypothetical problems, i am talking about a real > thing: my limited amount of free time i am able and willing to spend for > Gentoo. And i prefer spending it on fixing real bugs over spending > additional

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: [...] > And finally, as already pointed out by Rich, you should not talk about > any specific EAPI you like/prefer/want to be used everyhwere, but > instead about the issue you want to solve. So just point out the issue > and ask the mai

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: >>> El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:29 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: [...] > > And finally, as already pointed out by Rich, you should not talk about > > any specific EAPI you like/prefer/want to be used everyhwere, but > > instead about the issue you want to solve. So just point out the issue > > and ask t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: > Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? Seriously, what people are still having problems with trimming quotes? Pacho, I wrote a sarcastic manual for you about how to trim quotes in your replies on the mailing list, but you are still not doing it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: > >>> El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > I volunteer to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: >>> El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: > I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find > if I have time

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 08:14 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: > On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:07:39 +0200 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 17:43 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 > > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > > > Seriously, what people is s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:07:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 17:43 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? > > > If there are doubts about its

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 17:43 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? > > If there are doubts about its usage, they should be asked and resolved > > instead of ignored kee

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: > >>> I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find > >>> if I have time... what prevents me fro

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Thomas Sachau wrote: > This is not about "having problems with handling eapi-X", this is just > about limited time and the choice where to spend that time. If you do > just a version bump, you often dont have to touch the ebuild at all, > just copy, test, commit an

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? > If there are doubts about its usage, they should be asked and resolved > instead of ignored keeping ebuilds with older eapis. The only eapi > that probably adds no advant

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: >> Pacho Ramos schrieb: >>> I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find >>> if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is to commit that >>> changes to ebuilds not maintained by me

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: > Pacho Ramos schrieb: > > I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find > > if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is to commit that > > changes to ebuilds not maintained by me and not knowing if deve

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: > I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find > if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is to commit that > changes to ebuilds not maintained by me and not knowing if developers > agree on using latest eapi if possible. A more general soluti

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 15:47 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: [...] > > Because it will add even more work, I mean: > > - I catch a package using and old eapi and, then, still not passing > > --disable-silent-rules option. => First problem, I need to notice that > > package, there are packages I s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:09:15 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: > El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 14:51 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0200 > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > What I am trying to say is that, if we agree latest eapi is > > > technically better, we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 14:51 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0200 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > [...] > > > What I am trying to say is that, if we agree latest eapi is > > technically better, we need to try to get it used when possible (I > > mean, when, for example,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0200 Pacho Ramos wrote: [...] > What I am trying to say is that, if we agree latest eapi is > technically better, we need to try to get it used when possible (I > mean, when, for example, eclasses are ported) for a "QA" reasoning. i think we all agree that there ar

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 18-10-2012 a las 15:35 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Personally I see no major difficult in moving to eapi4, what exact > > difficult are you (I mean people still sticking with eapi0/1) seeing? > > It is harder than cp. :) > > If

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/18/2012 09:09 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > Anyways, we're seriously getting off topic here. I don't think anyone > objected to removing the EAPI 0 requirement for system packages (and in > reality no one follows it anyways. An EAPI 0 requirement for system packages is just silly these days. > E

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Ryan Hill
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:36:27 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > > Well, it's not just about ebuilds you maintain. Think about something > > like the gcc-porting trackers where you have to touch a lot of ebuilds > > across the tree. You really do have to have a working knowledge of the > > differences

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Personally I see no major difficult in moving to eapi4, what exact > difficult are you (I mean people still sticking with eapi0/1) seeing? It is harder than cp. :) If I write a new ebuild I would always target the most recent EAPI. However,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 18-10-2012 a las 13:49 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > I didn't think eapi4 features were still "unfamiliar" to so many > > people... let's say, what about deprecating eapi1, 2 and 0 for newer > > ebuilds? Is eapi2 so unfamiliar also

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > I didn't think eapi4 features were still "unfamiliar" to so many > people... let's say, what about deprecating eapi1, 2 and 0 for newer > ebuilds? Is eapi2 so unfamiliar also to not force it as older eapi for > newer ebuilds (eapi3 changes loo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 18-10-2012 a las 09:36 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:12 -0400 > > Rich Freeman wrote: > >> I think the whole developers-can't-handle-47-EAPIs thing is a red > >> herring. The fact that there are packages w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:12 -0400 > Rich Freeman wrote: >> I think the whole developers-can't-handle-47-EAPIs thing is a red >> herring. The fact that there are packages written in Erlang in the >> tree doesn't cause me any issues even though

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-17 Thread Ryan Hill
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:12 -0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > > Would be easier to prune old versions if we "force" them to be less > > using at least preventing new ebuilds to use them. For example, what is > > the advantage for a new ebuild to s

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Would be easier to prune old versions if we "force" them to be less > using at least preventing new ebuilds to use them. For example, what is > the advantage for a new ebuild to still rely on old src_compile phase > instead of src_prepare/confi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-17 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 16-10-2012 a las 23:42 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:28:20 +0200 > Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0600 > > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > > > I'd argue against deprecating EAPI 0 any time soon though. Killing > > > EAPI 1 would be a better ide

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-16 Thread Ryan Hill
On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:28:20 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0600 > Ryan Hill wrote: > > > I'd argue against deprecating EAPI 0 any time soon though. Killing > > EAPI 1 would be a better idea. > > I'm not for forced EAPI bumps anytime soon, but I expect EAPI 0 to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0600 Ryan Hill wrote: > I'd argue against deprecating EAPI 0 any time soon though. Killing > EAPI 1 would be a better idea. I'm not for forced EAPI bumps anytime soon, but I expect EAPI 0 to be gone from tree in 3-5 years once the EAPI=0 requirement is lifted. Cur

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-12 Thread Ryan Hill
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 12:53:15 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser wrote: > The EAPI=0 requirement comes from having to provide an update path for > systems with a package manager without EAPI support. By now we are > talking about really ancient systems and it's questionable if there is > any merit in supporti