Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: initial EAPI awareness

2005-09-02 Thread Zac Medico
Brian Harring wrote: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 10:27:44PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: A better approach IMO would be to store the EAPI in a separate file such as metadata.xml. This would allow *absolute* flexibility in the ebuild format. Portage would be able to select an appropriate parser

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: initial EAPI awareness

2005-09-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 02 September 2005 07:27, Zac Medico wrote: Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Wednesday 31 August 2005 14:57, Brian Harring wrote: Re: tagging EAPI at the top of a file, infra would probably shoot me for doing such- till a live, fully compatible and *roughly* equivalent parser is

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: initial EAPI awareness

2005-09-02 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Friday 02 September 2005 08:04, Brian Harring wrote: Like I've said, EAPI is ebuild specific. Ebuild is a format; eapi defines revisions of it, in my mind a minor revision of the ebuild 1 format. Any form of loss of backwards compatability *should* be a different format, .ebuild2 for all

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: initial EAPI awareness

2005-09-02 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:53:05AM +0200, Paul de Vrieze wrote: On Friday 02 September 2005 08:04, Brian Harring wrote: Like I've said, EAPI is ebuild specific. Ebuild is a format; eapi defines revisions of it, in my mind a minor revision of the ebuild 1 format. Any form of loss of