Michael Mol schrieb: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> >>> The primary benefit to the policy that dev's should bump EAPI when >>> bumping ebuilds is so that older inferior EAPIs can be deprecated and >>> eventually removed from the tree. >> >> What is the benefit from removing the old EAPIs? > > I can answer this one...removing old EAPIs simplifies code for things > which need to be EAPI-aware. There are no bugs in code that doesn't > exist. >
Like package managers? Sorry, but this is not true, since you can never assume, that older EAPIs dont exist any more (even a simple EAPI-0 ebuild, which never needed a bump, is enough), so older EAPI versions have to be supported forever. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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