On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 23:46 +0000, Stephen Bennett wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:11:43 +0100
> Carsten Lohrke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > There's absolutely no reason to absorb every single version naming
> > scheme on earth. Gentoo's does work nicely and more than we have
> > would only be irritating to the user. Simply use _pre<datecode>  or
> > whatever fits, but extending our naming scheme is unneeded and
> > pointless.
> 
> And of course there is the issue of how older Portage releases will
> react to ebuild names that they don't understand.

Understandable for sure. Thus not really putting any sort of time frame
on implementation. Maybe EAPI=1 or beyond. Up to others that would
implement it. Just was tossing it out there, providing some feedback.

-- 
William L. Thomson Jr.
Gentoo/Java

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