On 16:42 Sun 07 Nov , Petteri Räty wrote:
> On 11/06/2010 11:22 AM, Krzysztof Pawlik wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm sending this patch for discussion, what it changes? The change is to
> > where
> > the final clone of repository will be placed, it used to be
> > ${WORKDIR}/${module}
> > (where module usually is the last component of source URI) to
> > ${WORKDIR}/${P}
> > (essentially ${S}). This has few effects:
> > - ebuilds using mercurial.eclass don't need to set S any longer
> > - mercurial.eclass behaves more like git.eclass
> > - it breaks all existing ebuilds using this eclass
>
> Which means that the doing the chance is not allowed as eclasses must
> remain backwards compatible.Is that really still the case now that full environments have been saved for a number of years? Clearly breaking things is unacceptable, but I could envision someone simultaneously updating the eclass and all consumers. Perhaps you could point me to the appropriate documentation, if any exists. -- Thanks, Donnie Donnie Berkholz Sr. Developer, Gentoo Linux Blog: http://dberkholz.wordpress.com
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