On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:34:49 +0100
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <[email protected]> wrote:

> 2010-11-28 21:20:31 Michał Górny napisał(a):
> > On Sun, 28 Nov 2010 20:32:16 +0100
> > Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > > PYTHON_DEPEND will be required. Otherwise each
> > > "${range_of_versions}" should be included between "<<" and ">>"
> > > markers.
> > 
> > Do we really need to introduce those ugly markers? AFAICS in all
> > places they're used you could simply either use version numbers
> > themselves or '*' (instead of '<<>>', and '*[...]' instead of
> > '<<[...]>>').
> 
> I prefer to use a character sequence, which isn't valid in
> DEPEND/RDEPEND/PDEPEND.

Plain version numbers aren't valid there as well.

> I don't know what you mean by "version numbers". Remember that each
> "<<>>" in an ebuild with empty RESTRICT_PYTHON_ABIS is replaced in
> DEPEND/RDEPEND by: python_abis_2.4? ( dev-lang/python:2.4 )
>   python_abis_2.5? ( dev-lang/python:2.5 )
>   python_abis_2.6? ( dev-lang/python:2.6 )
>   python_abis_2.7? ( dev-lang/python:2.7 )
>   python_abis_3.0? ( dev-lang/python:3.0 )
>   python_abis_3.1? ( dev-lang/python:3.1 )
>   python_abis_3.2? ( dev-lang/python:3.2 )
>   python_abis_2.5-jython? ( dev-java/jython:2.5 )

And we could use simply '*' instead. Similarly to what we use
in PYTHON_DEPEND now. That wouldn't be valid in *DEPEND as well.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Górny

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