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

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