Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-12 Thread Michael Hammer
Hi folks! I am not involved in creating the EAPI 2 draft but I am interested in the discussion and would like to track the technical evolution but this seams nearly impossible as you're not able to agree on a public draft document. * Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] [080911 20:02]: On Mon, 08

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 08:28:52 +0200 Michael Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - An official (by the council accepted) VCS repo (a la git) for the document (EAPI draft or even the PMS spec?) Uh, already exists. - An interface (mailing address) where everyone interested can submit a patch for

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Ability to pass arguments to src_configure/src_compile

2008-09-12 Thread Arun Raghavan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Donnie Berkholz wrote: On 12:46 Sun 07 Sep , Marcus D. Hanwell wrote: I personally agree with several others who have replied to this thread. The reduction in lines of code/characters seems to introduce an uglier syntax which is harder to

[gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could have icedtea-1.2:1.6.ebuildN and icedtea-1.2:1.7.ebuildN. This particular situation

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-12 Thread Jim Ramsay
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 2008 22:14:57 -0400 Jim Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was personally expecting to see some sort of section called EAPI-1 that contains something like: EAPI-1 consists of EAPI-0 with the following features added... Have a look

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI-2

2008-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:14:51 -0400 Jim Ramsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unrelated topic: What packages are actually required to 'make pms.pdf' so I can actually read it? I get: Have a look at the dependencies for app-doc/pms. -- Ciaran McCreesh signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:12:30 +0300 Petteri Räty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could have

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 14:56 Fri 12 Sep , Doug Goldstein wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file name we could have

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti: On 14:56 Fri 12 Sep , Doug Goldstein wrote: Petteri Räty wrote: Icedtea has two release tracks. One for the 1.7 OpenJDK code base and one for the 1.6 code base. They have independent version numbering so they can have collisions. By moving the slot to the file

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 22:21 Fri 12 Sep , Petteri Räty wrote: I do know how to get around it, I did state that in my original email. As it happens we are having a discussion on gentoo-java mailing list on whether we should use icedtea-openjdk build.icedtea version.ebuild or have different packages for

Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Glep 55 use case: moving slot to file name

2008-09-12 Thread Petteri Räty
Donnie Berkholz kirjoitti: On 22:21 Fri 12 Sep , Petteri Räty wrote: I do know how to get around it, I did state that in my original email. As it happens we are having a discussion on gentoo-java mailing list on whether we should use icedtea-openjdk build.icedtea version.ebuild or have