On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 15:46:06 +0100 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The issue is with comparison rules. For the current use case that's > not an issue as it's simply a superset, so we could just use the new > rules for everything. But if the rules are changed in an incompatible > way, which rules would be used to compare version(EAPI_X) with > version(EAPI_Y)?
You pretty much have to have a way of mapping an EAPI version onto an absolute version if you want to handle it sanely. > > Ditto for naming rules. > > Those are even more of an issue, as they apply before we know the > eventual EAPI (need to access the category/package directory before > you can parse the ebuild filename) Mmm, no. You have some concept of a superset of all supported naming rules, then refine once you've extracted the EAPI. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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