On Saturday 03 March 2007, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Why is PMS considered so important that it might have a deadline > imposed upon it by the Council?
why is an EAPI spec considered important ? it should be plainly obvious why something like an EAPI standard matters so much to Gentoo > As far as I'm aware, nothing like this has been done before. so ? letting projects slide in the past is no justification to let projects in the future slide > Now, if there's a good reason for the Council imposing a deadline, > there's a pretty decent chance that said deadline will be met. If the > Council can justify why it needs PMS done in a hurry, PMS can end up > being ready within a very short timeframe. If the Council can't justify > the deadline, it will end up being done within a not so short > timeframe, since all the PMS authors are working upon several things > and won't make PMS top priority without good reason. the portage people have things marked for EAPI=1 which are sitting indefinitely (some features which for sure i want to use myself), but we cant really tag EAPI=0 final until we have a spec now can we ? -mike
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