>>>>> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Piotr Jaroszynski wrote:

>> One example was mentioned in this thread before: You cannot use
>> "find -name '*.ebuild'" anymore.

> This should really be one of the last things to consider.

On the contrary. If you want to force users to change their habits,
then it should be one of the first things to consider if this is
really necessary.

>> And as we have now learned that EAPI strings are not limited to digits
>> (see ciaranm's message) and may even contain blanks (see grobian's
>> message), we would have ebuilds with very strange filenames.

> I think you misunderstood grobian's mail,

There was nothing that could be misunderstood. The sentence in
question was:
| As a result I now have EAPI="prefix 1" ebuilds.

> which is "how we do it in prefix" anyway.

Where is documented what characters are allowed in an EAPI string?

Ulrich
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