Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:44:43 -0500
Doug Klima <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A better statement on your part would have been "We need to ensure
compatibility for the greatest amount of users and requiring users to
have a version of Portage released after January 4th when it's only
the middle of February is not going to ensure the greatest
compatibility. The previous policy was always 6 months between breaks
like this." You're free to reword the above to however you see fit.
You mean "the change should of course have been an EAPI bump".
hth,
As it's been explained to me by one of your fellow PMS developers, since
EAPI=0 is not complete yet, there will be no work on further EAPIs until
EAPI=0 is complete. Since this is the case and we still need to make
changes, we must revert back to the previous policy with regard to changes.
I personally would love to see EAPI=0 published as a draft for users and
developers to see. I feel that it's going to be one of those things
that's going to be difficult to nail down do the the nature of a whole
package manager being developed without any specifications . Writing a
concrete set of specifications after the fact, which encompass every
little nook and cranny, is a difficult and tedious process that requires
testing every single code path.
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