On Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:45:52 +0400
Peter Volkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> В Пнд, 08/09/2008 в 23:34 +0000, Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto пишет:
> > So we're talking about adding the following to EAPI-2:
>
> While it's not too late. Can we make dobin, doman and other do*
> functions finally die in EAPI=2? I've reviewed discussions on -dev
> [1],[2] and bug 138792 [3] and seems that the only possible stopper is
> that implementing them as functions makes impossible to use them with
> xargs. Maybe for such rather rare case we should create new functions
> (xdo{bin,*} or whatever name is better)?I'd suggest holding off on that one. There're at least three different ways of implementing it, all with different implications, and it needs proper discussion. * Using traps looks nice on the surface, but in practice they're sufficiently weird on things like conditionals that they're probably not a useful solution. * Banning xargs and doing them as functions is a possibility, but far from ideal, especially since it's just working around a Portage limitation. * Making Portage support subprocess dies is the nice solution, but this probably isn't an EAPI 2 timeframe feature. In addition, having nonfatal versions of commands is also useful in practice. Exheres has a 'nonfatal' command, so you can do 'nonfatal dodoc foo bar baz'. This also needs discussing before deciding upon a spec. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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