-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello again,
I'd like to get some feedback about what people would like to have in the final EAPI 2. In planning for this EAPI bump, we should strike a balance somewhere in between everything that we'd like to have and whatever we can implement in a short period of time. It doesn't really makes sense to delay the EAPI bump too much for implementation of new features, since those features can simply be reserved for a future EAPI bump. The latest experiment EAPI is 2_pre2, supported by >=sys-apps/portage-2.2_rc7. Please refer to the html documentation [1] for addition information about the experimental EAPI extensions which are summarized here: * The 'doman' helper function recognizes language codes in man page source files, and uses them to generate an appropriate installation path. * Dependency atoms can be constrained to match specific USE flag states, including USE conditional expressions embedded within the atoms themselves. * The old src_compile phase function is split into separate src_configure and src_compile fuctions. * Default phase function implementations for the current EAPI are accessible via a function having a name that begins with default_ and ends with the respective phase function name. * Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi', followed by the EAPI value. * The default phase function implementation for the currently executing phase is accessible as a function named 'default'. In addition to the above extensions, I've received a patch for SRC_URI arrows [2] that I plan to review but haven't had time yet. Please file bugs for any additional features that you'd like to add and mark them as blockers of bug 174380 [3]. Thanks, Zac [1] http://dev.gentoo.org/~zmedico/portage/doc/portage.html#package-ebuild-eapi [2] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177863 [3] http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174380 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiimNgACgkQ/ejvha5XGaOsCwCfYBAJNwTcl7USG/OF4lxI5iND nD8An1lfyS6f5lvqXgeA1bXB3JHstyIi =NGBs -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
