Am 25.10.2010 16:43, schrieb Fabio Erculiani: > Implementing a feature to just satisfy your tiny, corner-case (how > many people would take benefit out of it?) use case is just against > any software engineering best practice, and it's a good path towards > bloat and complexity. I think people can understand "python_abis_2_5" > well enough, besides being happy that their app will KEEP working. > >
You are wrong at this part. Supporting dots in USE flags is not just a corner case for python packages. I planned to suggest the same for a future EAPI, when i got my planned features for multilib-portage done (which will then natively support the installation of packages for multiple versions of those different lang packages (like python, ruby, php...). While it might be possible to read and understand, that 2_5 is intended to be 2.5, it is much easier to understand and read, if you just write 2.5. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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