On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
>
> Having the EAPI stored outside the ebuild's scope is generally a bad
> idea, because someone has to tell you that the ebuild you just
> downloaded from Bugzilla is EAPI x. And the package manager will be
> totally confused when ass
Hi,
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net>:
> > Potentially the developer could just manually put the EAPI in the
> > manifest (or use a tool to do this). Obviously this is an extra
> > step when adding ebuilds to the tree, but that would completely
> > address the issues with sourcing builds.
>
> That's
Richard Freeman posted 49b57409.5050...@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:54:49 -0400:
> If the developer of an ebuild prepares the manifest, then at least their
> package manager will know how to handle the ebuild and extract the EAPI.
Good point. The dev's PM will presumabl
Duncan wrote:
So putting it in the manifest but generated from the ebuild info really
doesn't change the problem, leaving us precisely where we were before,
except that it may be useful as a component of one of the other
solutions, and has been proposed as such in a few of the suggested
varian
Jacob Floyd posted
4afbebfe0903090601r5759177bt98639c0c3a61b...@mail.gmail.com, excerpted
below, on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 07:01:21 -0600:
> Stick EAPI info in the Manifest. The Manifest stores metadata info about
> the ebuilds for security and validation purposes, why not add a string
> that determin
Am Montag, den 02.03.2009, 08:31 +0100 schrieb Christian Faulhammer:
> Hi,
>
> Petteri Räty :
>
> > Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many
> > people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order
> > to get some idea what the general developer pool th
Hi,
Petteri Räty :
> Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many
> people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order
> to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is
> only allowed to post a single reply to this thread in order to
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:21:23 +0200
Petteri Räty wrote:
> Let's try something new. I would like to get opinions from as many
> people as possible about GLEP 55 and alternatives listed here in order
> to get some idea what the general developer pool thinks. Everyone is
> only allowed to post a sing
