Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:39 Fri 05 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/4 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization of output file names by using a - operator. Is it useful to have both of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/4 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization of

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify adding a special gitweb-specific hack to the package managers?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:39:16AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 05 September 2008, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:39:16AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Buchholz wrote: How is using the eclass better for bandwidth usage? It won't allow for mirroring, and all users would have to checkout the repository from one place. Furthermore, you cannot have (signed) Manifests that allow integrity

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Buchholz wrote: How is using the eclass better for bandwidth usage? It won't allow for mirroring, and all users would have to checkout the repository from one place. Furthermore, you cannot have (signed) Manifests that allow integrity

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 05 September 2008, Mike Auty wrote: From what I understand of the idea, the eclass will just change the SRC_URI field from the first case (sf=tgz) to the second case (-). Eclasses have to be sourced before the SRC_URI is determined because they can already add (and presumably alter)

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Alec Warner kirjoitti: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 05 September 2008 00:58:05 Zac Medico wrote:  * Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are    accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi',    followed by the EAPI value. Based on the lack of use cases or further responses to [1] I would suggest