Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1

2006-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Zmedico did a lot of things with usage of global variables, however I think that getting all that tested ( especially in scripts that we don't keep track of ) is detremental to getting portage stable. I agree that >>>

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1

2006-05-01 Thread Alec Warner
Zac Medico wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: Marius Mauch wrote: Alec Warner schrieb: Why Branch at 2.1_pre9? Manifest2 is already in the tree and needs refinement. Branching at pre7 is also a canidate, but i would rather press for keeping manifest2 in t

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1

2006-05-01 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Warner wrote: > Marius Mauch wrote: >> Alec Warner schrieb: >>> Why Branch at 2.1_pre9? >>> Manifest2 is already in the tree and needs refinement. Branching at >>> pre7 is also a canidate, but i would rather press for keeping manifest2 >>> in the

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1

2006-05-01 Thread Alec Warner
Marius Mauch wrote: Alec Warner schrieb: Why Branch at 2.1_pre9? Manifest2 is already in the tree and needs refinement. Branching at pre7 is also a canidate, but i would rather press for keeping manifest2 in the tree and fixing up it's code instead. Why not pre10? Because pre10 seems to in

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Refactoring of emerge code

2006-05-01 Thread m h
Based on the recent "Stabilizing portage 2.1" thread, should I provide patches based on pre9 or pre10? thanks matt On 4/30/06, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: m h wrote: > OK will do that. Since, I'm not a patching pro, can you suggest a > good way of creating a series of patches t

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1

2006-05-01 Thread Marius Mauch
Alec Warner schrieb: Why Branch at 2.1_pre9? Manifest2 is already in the tree and needs refinement. Branching at pre7 is also a canidate, but i would rather press for keeping manifest2 in the tree and fixing up it's code instead. Why not pre10? TimeLine: If all goes well, we can do an rc som

[gentoo-portage-dev] Stablizing portage 2.1

2006-05-01 Thread Alec Warner
Per some discussion on IRC, I am bring stablizing 2.1 at the pre9 or pre10 branch to the table. Reasons for doing so include: 2006.1 - They say if 2.1 is to be in 2006.1, mid-july Xorg Modular - They cannot stable xorg modular until 2.1 is stable FreeBSD - Their entire port depends on features an