On 08/30/05 Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Monday 29 August 2005 22:52, Zac Medico wrote: > > Brian Harring wrote: > > > Please test this out; if you want to test the EAPI checking, tag > > > EAPI=1 into an ebuild, and try making emerge bail. > > > > Well, it bails too often. :) > > > > It seems that an explicit integer conversion is needed for > and < > > comparisons with mixed types > > (2.0.51-eapi-awareness-emerge-int-conversion.patch). > > I don't think it is a wise path to interpret EAPI's as integers at > all. There should not be guarantees of forward or backward > compatibility between versions. Interpreting them as integers seems > to imply that. Basically I think that EAPI could be anything wanted, > similar to SLOTS. Of course using digits is easy for humans.
I've to agree with Paul here, portage should hold a list of all EAPI values it understands, not a maximum value. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. -- [email protected] mailing list
