On Tue, 1 Jan 2008 05:50:11 +0100
Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You pretty much have to have a way of mapping an EAPI version onto
> > an absolute version if you want to handle it sanely.
> 
> Right, and that's likely to cause a mess in the long run IMO.

Eh, it's already necessary if package managers want to support things
like CPAN natively. It's not too big a deal.

> > Mmm, no. You have some concept of a superset of all supported naming
> > rules, then refine once you've extracted the EAPI.
> 
> Assuming the current package manager supports all used EAPIs,
> otherwise a formerly invalid name could still break it.

'Twould just have to ignore them.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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