On Sunday 05 April 2009 10:26:39 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 4 Apr 2009 23:58:04 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > get a *working* implementation first and *then* worry about specing > > it. once you have something running with portage, the spec should > > fall naturally out. previous multilib methods attempted to spec > > things out without any real code and they've all just died. > > You don't know whether it's working until you know what it does. > > You appear to be confusing "writing down roughly what you're doing and > figuring out approximately how it might work before you start writing > code" with "writing the spec up-front".
wrong. Thomas is talking about adding things directly to EAPI (EAPI-3 in this case). i dont have a problem with scratching crap out in the sand and getting feedback, but forcing it into the EAPI without actually trying it ends with exactly everything ive said. -mike
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