On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:38:16PM +0200, Marius Mauch wrote:
> 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.
Stable knows of one version- so containment check versus > is moot; 
negated values are disallowed for eapi anyways.
Note that the rewrite will do containment tests instead, but rewrite 
will also support eapi1 and eapi0 rather then just one.
~harring

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