On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:48:27 +0100 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > ...and then we have to do the whole thing again every time something > > new crops up. > > Please give an example because I fail to see how.
New version suffix rules. New bash versions. New package naming rules. Partially composable EAPIs. Tree-provided internals. Consistent variable namespacing. Metadata via function calls. > > EAPI was supposed to solve this, and profile eapi and > > GLEP 55 finish the job. Repeatedly going back and saying "oh, we > > have to wait another year or more again" is unacceptable. > > Had we found a compromise at the beginning of glep55, that extra year > would be over by now... And we'd be starting on the next batch of "oh, we need to wait another year". Had GLEP 55's necessity been accepted a year ago, we'd have a whole bunch of requested features implemented by now. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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