[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-26 Thread Ryan Hill
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:27:03 +0100 Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > >> b) Does it really matter? > > > > In the grand scheme of things, no. In the grand scheme of things, > > you only *need* a single src_ function. From a maintainer > > convenience perspective, ho

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-21 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:31:17PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > [...] > > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid > > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about > > whi

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:17 +0530 Arun Raghavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid > > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about > > which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: [...] > The benefit is that it's a logically separate action, and will avoid > all the silliness of people repeatedly changing their minds about > which phase should do the eautoreconf calls and so on. a) Is this really an issue

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:12 PM, Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after >> src_unpack, to avoid having lots of things of the form: >> >> src_unpack() { >> default >> patch blah >> eautore

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] What features should be included in EAPI 2?

2008-08-19 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:18:33 -0700 > Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * The old src_compile phase function is split into separate >>src_configure and src_compile fuctions. > > If you're doing new phases... Exheres has been using src_prepare, after > src_unpac