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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed
From:       Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh () blueyonder ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-12-31 15:09:33
Message-ID: 20071231150933.69bcf241 () snowcone
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On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:46:06 +0100
Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org> wrote:
> The issue is with comparison rules. For the current use case that's
> not an issue as it's simply a superset, so we could just use the new
> rules for everything. But if the rules are changed in an incompatible
> way, which rules would be used to compare version(EAPI_X) with
> version(EAPI_Y)?

You pretty much have to have a way of mapping an EAPI version onto an
absolute version if you want to handle it sanely.

> > Ditto for naming rules.
> 
> Those are even more of an issue, as they apply before we know the
> eventual EAPI (need to access the category/package directory before
> you can parse the ebuild filename)

Mmm, no. You have some concept of a superset of all supported naming
rules, then refine once you've extracted the EAPI.

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Ciaran McCreesh

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