On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:05:08PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 16:49 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 16 May 2009 17:43:32 +0200 > > Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > That doesn't let us do version format changes. > > > > > > Or are we talking about the *ebuild* versions? I see that as > > > different matter. Plus: You could change the version format with > > > the changed extension. I sure do hope there are no plans on > > > making those changes as often as new EAPIs. > > > > Yes, those. The current rules include some pointless arbitrary > > restrictions that are only there for historical reasons and that mean > > people have to mess with convoluted MY_PV things. > > So from all the debate that's going on, the current major issue seems to > be being able to support '-scm' as per GLEP-54. What other restrictions > in the version format are you referring to? > > -- Arun
For one, there's the restriction that all *-alpha/*-rc has to be represented _rc/_alpha. I plan on doing more research into perhaps lifting this restriction in a future EAPI, but this would of course require glep 55's solution. -- --------- Thomas Anderson Gentoo Developer ///////// Areas of responsibility: AMD64, Secretary to the Gentoo Council ---------
