On Sat, 16 May 2009 15:50:39 +0100 Steven J Long <sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2009 11:27:10 +0200 > > Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Change the spec, then. > > > > If we change the spec, we can't do anything with the change until > > we're absolutely sure that everyone's updated both their ebuilds > > and their package manager for it. > > > Isn't that what the EAPI process is for? > > The "support every overlay and old version of portage known to Gentoo" > is a "straw man" as one hears so much of. GLEP-55 makes explicit > mention of waiting for 2008.0 to ship, and Gentoo is ultimately only > responsible for the software it ships, including sunrise.
You've missed the point. The point is, the EAPI process can't avoid the "huge wait before we can use it" for certain types of change that would be extremely useful. GLEP 55 fixes this limitation, and it's the *only* thing that fixes this limitation. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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