On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 04:16 +0200, lurker wrote: > On 28/07/08 18:18, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > Just a little FYI for everybody on the list... > > > > I've gone and forked most of the Release Engineering tools. I no longer > > plan on maintaining the "Gentoo" versions of catalyst, genkernel, > > hwdata, or livecd-tools. Instead, I am working on these projects under > > my own domain and will be releasing them as "standalone" applications, > > not under the Gentoo moniker. Now, these projects always have been > > "Gentoo Hosted Projects" and not really owned by the Gentoo project, but > > continued issues from other developers has proven that many don't > > understand this case. As such, it was simply easier to break away from > > the main project. This also allows us greater flexibility in making > > changes that would otherwise not be accepted within Gentoo. All of the > > current maintainers of these forks will be working on them in their new > > homes, making the Gentoo-hosted versions essentially dead. > > Interesting development. Can we be confident that the new independent > catalyst will not break the current interfaces (ignoring trivial > changes) and the use of portage? More to the point: what does this mean > for existing catalyst projects that are using portage and intend to stay > with it?
There will be some disruptive changes to the spec interface. For one, I've removed all of the deprecated spec key support, so if your specs were based on catalyst 1.x specs, they won't work anymore (without modification.) As Andrew said, we don't intend on breaking anything, except where absolutely necessary. We're trying to focus on making catalyst easier to use, yet still more powerful. One example of an incompatible change that we're *definitely* going to adopt: compilation of bootloader. Since this obsoletes the "cdtar" key, that option won't be valid in newer catalyst versions. This will be the general scope of interface-level changes, so people relying on catalyst, such as myself, have no need to worry. Things will stay similar-enough that transition from current catalyst to the new one will be rather minor. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering Strategic Lead Games Developer
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