[gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree. Currently we say that developers can use any named version they wish or find sufficient. I would on other hand like to have all ebuilds to use Latest EAPI version possible

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/25/11 12:20 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree. I have a great idea for you. How about creating a project (possibly a subproject of QA or something else) that would help people do that? In case of no response from maintainers just

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:13:06PM +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: On 1/25/11 12:20 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree. I have a great idea for you. How about creating a project (possibly a subproject of QA or something else)

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 25.1.2011 13:13, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. napsal(a): On 1/25/11 12:20 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree. I have a great idea for you. How about creating a project (possibly a subproject

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 25.1.2011 13:25, Markos Chandras napsal(a): On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:13:06PM +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: How about creating a project (possibly a subproject of QA or something else) that would help people do that? In case of no response

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:32:27PM +0100, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 25.1.2011 13:25, Markos Chandras napsal(a): On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 01:13:06PM +0100, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: How about creating a project (possibly a subproject of QA or

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 25.01.2011 12:20, schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: Hi, I would like to upgrade tree-wide policy for EAPI usage in main tree. Currently we say that developers can use any named version they wish or find sufficient. I would on other hand like to have all ebuilds to use Latest EAPI version possible

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Tomáš Chvátal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 25.1.2011 14:33, Thomas Sachau napsal(a): Do you have some more arguments for your request? Most new developers will have to know about all EAPi versions anyway since they join an existing team with existing ebuilds, which will mostly not

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 25.01.2011 15:09, schrieb Tomáš Chvátal: Dne 25.1.2011 14:33, Thomas Sachau napsal(a): Do you have some more arguments for your request? Most new developers will have to know about all EAPi versions anyway since they join an existing team with existing ebuilds, which will mostly not use

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Paweł Hajdan, Jr.
On 1/25/11 1:29 PM, Tomáš Chvátal wrote: Why would we need subproject for this. The idea was that if you want to introduce a new policy, you should also provide resources to make it possible. The below satisfies most of that. QA team itself is done to help developers with this tasks. So if

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Peter Volkov
В Втр, 25/01/2011 в 14:33 +0100, Thomas Sachau пишет: Do you have some more arguments for your request? Most new developers will have to know about all EAPi versions anyway since they join an existing team with existing ebuilds, which will mostly not use the newest EAPI. As an argument

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-01-25 15:34:58 Thomas Sachau napisał(a): This means, that you either have to convince the python eclass maintainers to reduce the complexity of their eclass There are plans to remove some EAPI-specific behavior by removing support for old EAPIs. E.g. when there are no remaining ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Thomas Sachau
Am 25.01.2011 17:40, schrieb Peter Volkov: В Втр, 25/01/2011 в 14:33 +0100, Thomas Sachau пишет: Do you have some more arguments for your request? Most new developers will have to know about all EAPi versions anyway since they join an existing team with existing ebuilds, which will mostly not

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
On Tuesday 25 January 2011 20:13:40 Thomas Sachau wrote: The (maybe inofficial) suggestion is already to use the latest EAPI in new ebuilds. This is ok for me, as long as it is a suggestion. The same goes for the migration of ebuilds to the latest EAPI. But i am against the idea to enforce

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Lars Wendler
Hi, I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter how hard I try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to our prefix guys, you surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 seems to really get you out of quite some trouble you had with earlier EAPIs, but... I for

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-01-25 22:33:16 Lars Wendler napisał(a): Hi, I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter how hard I try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to our prefix guys, you surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 seems to really get you out of quite some

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread justin
On 25/01/11 22:33, Lars Wendler wrote: Hi, I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter how hard I try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to our prefix guys, you surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 seems to really get you out of quite some

Re: [gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in main tree

2011-01-25 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Tue, 25 Jan 2011, Lars Wendler wrote: I don'f feel very well with this idea especially because no matter how hard I try I don't get comfortable with EAPI-3. No offense to our prefix guys, you surely did a hell of a good job and EAPI-3 seems to really get you out of quite some trouble you

[gentoo-dev] EAPI usage in the tree

2008-09-03 Thread Mark Loeser
Just a friendly reminder from your QA team...please do not commit ebuilds to the tree that are not using an EAPI that is not approved by the council (in masked or unmasked ebuilds). This means that the only EAPIs you can use in the tree are EAPI 0 and 1. If you want to use any of the EAPI-2