On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:19:56 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:13:16 +0100 > Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Which begs the question: is it really worth allowing it? > > If we only allow constant assignments (which is an implicit > > restriction in the file extension version) then this can be parsed > > easily with grep/tr/awk/etc and can be the magic eapi guessing. Of > > course the tree has to be checked before implementing this and we'll > > have to wait a good amount of time before breaking the current eapi > > bash-parsing but I'm not aware of any eapi proposal that would break > > the current behavior and would be usable in the main tree within a > > reasonable amount of time such that we can't ignore backward > > compatibility. > > ...and then we have to do the whole thing again every time something > new crops up. Please give an example because I fail to see how. > EAPI was supposed to solve this, and profile eapi and > GLEP 55 finish the job. Repeatedly going back and saying "oh, we have > to wait another year or more again" is unacceptable. Had we found a compromise at the beginning of glep55, that extra year would be over by now... Alexis.
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