On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:58:00 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > Of course an individual PM could choose to keep support for as long > as they want, but unless I'm missing something, that'd let PMs drop > support for old EAPIs if desired, with at least a reasonably sane > upgrade path for both PM devs and users.
It's irrelevant: the amount of package mangler code to be saved by removing old EAPIs is so small it's not worth discussing. Most EAPI changes so far have either been additions or very simple behaviour tweaks, not removals of annoying things. There are things we might change in future EAPIs that will in the very long term make this discussion worthwhile. If we get rid of VDB access or unconstrained env saving, *then* it might be worth having this discussion. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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