On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 22:51:11 +0100 Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > >> The same kind that always happens when lots of ebuilds get > > >> changed. > > > > > > ... lots of new features and a few bugs that get fixed the next > > > day? Hey, that sounds quite bad. And maybe some new herd testers? > > > How rude! > > > > I don't see the correlation between EAPI bumps and new herd testers. > > Well, ciaran said that the same thing happens that always happens > when lots of ebuilds get changed. Last time I saw that happen (think > KDE4) we got some nice herd testers plus a new dev or two, so I am > confused too.
And a massive amount of breakage, some of which still isn't fixed, yes. Have a look at bugzilla sometime. > Anyway. Most of the "porting" effort (assuming no other issues > sneaking in) would be adding a "EAPI=1" line to ebuilds, which could > be done "lazily" on version bumps. There's no rush to get it killed > now now now, but in a year we might be at EAPI 5, and then I don't > want to be the one writing the docs that split apart what features > are where and what syntax is valid and all that. Fortunately, you won't be. As the person who probably will be, I can assure you that killing off EAPI 0 won't help in the slightest. It won't mean we can remove all mention of EAPI 0 from the documentation, since package managers need to support EAPIs indefinitely for uninstalls. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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