On Friday 21 December 2007 08:43:43 Richard Freeman wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Please don't comment any further until you understand how this whole > > thing works. > CON: > Yet another value to be parsed out of an increasingly-complex filename. > Doesn't look pretty :) Taste is a matter of opinion. I happen to like eapi-1 in the filename so I know a bit about the ebuild before looking through its contents. > Makes a low-level detail more visible to users. > You can't make a wild change to how EAPIs are specified - since old PMs > will expect it to be in the filename in a particular format. This isn't a CON, it is actually a PRO because old PMs won't recognize the new format and everyone will be happy. (something not so easy with the other solutions.)
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