Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 17:43 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? If there are doubts about its usage, they should be asked and resolved instead of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Michał Górny
On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:07:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 17:43 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? If there

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 08:14 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 08:07:39 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 17:43 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Seriously,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find if I have time... what prevents

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do whatever conversions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Peter Stuge
Pacho Ramos wrote: Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? Seriously, what people are still having problems with trimming quotes? Pacho, I wrote a sarcastic manual for you about how to trim quotes in your replies on the mailing list, but you are still not doing it.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:29 +0200, Pacho Ramos escribió: [...] And finally, as already pointed out by Rich, you should not talk about any specific EAPI you like/prefer/want to be used everyhwere, but instead about the issue you want to solve. So just point out the issue and ask the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 22:39 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: [...] And finally, as already pointed out by Rich, you should not talk about any specific EAPI you like/prefer/want to be used everyhwere, but instead about the issue you want to solve. So just point out the issue and ask the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Pacho Ramos
El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 17:15 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: [...] I am not talking about hypothetical problems, i am talking about a real thing: my limited amount of free time i am able and willing to spend for Gentoo. And i prefer spending it on fixing real bugs over spending additional

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: That time you think you are saving, will be need to be lost if, for example, some QA policy appears in the future to move to try to run tests in parallel when possible, or force verbose output. So you're suggesting that I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-20 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: El sáb, 20-10-2012 a las 16:09 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: [...] And finally, as already pointed out by Rich, you should not talk about any specific EAPI you like/prefer/want to be used everyhwere, but instead about the issue you want to solve. So just point out the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 18-10-2012 a las 15:35 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Personally I see no major difficult in moving to eapi4, what exact difficult are you (I mean people still sticking with eapi0/1) seeing? It is harder than cp.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] What I am trying to say is that, if we agree latest eapi is technically better, we need to try to get it used when possible (I mean, when, for example, eclasses are ported) for a QA reasoning. i think we all agree

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 14:51 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] What I am trying to say is that, if we agree latest eapi is technically better, we need to try to get it used when possible (I mean, when, for

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:09:15 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 14:51 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 19:21:52 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: [...] What I am trying to say is that, if we agree latest eapi is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 15:47 -0300, Alexis Ballier escribió: [...] Because it will add even more work, I mean: - I catch a package using and old eapi and, then, still not passing --disable-silent-rules option. = First problem, I need to notice that package, there are packages I simply

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is to commit that changes to ebuilds not maintained by me and not knowing if developers agree on using latest eapi if possible. A more general solution

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Pacho Ramos
El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is to commit that changes to ebuilds not maintained by me and not knowing if developers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Thomas Sachau
Pacho Ramos schrieb: El vie, 19-10-2012 a las 21:43 +0200, Thomas Sachau escribió: Pacho Ramos schrieb: I volunteer to do whatever conversions you want for every ebuild I find if I have time... what prevents me from doing it is to commit that changes to ebuilds not maintained by me and not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 21:53:18 +0200 Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Seriously, what people is still having problems with handling eapi4? If there are doubts about its usage, they should be asked and resolved instead of ignored keeping ebuilds with older eapis. The only eapi that probably

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-19 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org wrote: This is not about having problems with handling eapi-X, this is just about limited time and the choice where to spend that time. If you do just a version bump, you often dont have to touch the ebuild at all, just copy,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:12 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the whole developers-can't-handle-47-EAPIs thing is a red herring. The fact that there are packages written in Erlang in the tree doesn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 18-10-2012 a las 09:36 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:00:12 -0400 Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org wrote: I think the whole developers-can't-handle-47-EAPIs thing is a red herring. The fact

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I didn't think eapi4 features were still unfamiliar to so many people... let's say, what about deprecating eapi1, 2 and 0 for newer ebuilds? Is eapi2 so unfamiliar also to not force it as older eapi for newer ebuilds (eapi3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Pacho Ramos
El jue, 18-10-2012 a las 13:49 -0400, Rich Freeman escribió: On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: I didn't think eapi4 features were still unfamiliar to so many people... let's say, what about deprecating eapi1, 2 and 0 for newer ebuilds? Is eapi2 so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Rich Freeman
On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Personally I see no major difficult in moving to eapi4, what exact difficult are you (I mean people still sticking with eapi0/1) seeing? It is harder than cp. :) If I write a new ebuild I would always target the most recent

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-18 Thread Zac Medico
On 10/18/2012 09:09 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: Anyways, we're seriously getting off topic here. I don't think anyone objected to removing the EAPI 0 requirement for system packages (and in reality no one follows it anyways. An EAPI 0 requirement for system packages is just silly these days. Even

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-17 Thread Pacho Ramos
El mar, 16-10-2012 a las 23:42 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 08:28:20 +0200 Ralph Sennhauser s...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd argue against deprecating EAPI 0 any time soon though. Killing EAPI 1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-17 Thread Rich Freeman
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Pacho Ramos pa...@gentoo.org wrote: Would be easier to prune old versions if we force them to be less using at least preventing new ebuilds to use them. For example, what is the advantage for a new ebuild to still rely on old src_compile phase instead of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Drop EAPI=0 requirement for system packages.

2012-10-13 Thread Ralph Sennhauser
On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 21:10:23 -0600 Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org wrote: I'd argue against deprecating EAPI 0 any time soon though. Killing EAPI 1 would be a better idea. I'm not for forced EAPI bumps anytime soon, but I expect EAPI 0 to be gone from tree in 3-5 years once the EAPI=0