Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 17 May 2009 23:17:57 +0200 > Ben de Groot <yng...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> 1. "Incompatible change of inherit (e.g. make it look in the package >> dir too)" >> A case would need to be made, in my opinion, as to why we would wish >> to allow this in the first place. The current inherit behavior with >> eclasses in a central place works well enough. So I think we can >> disregard this. > > There are already horrible hacks in the tree to get per-package > 'eclasses'. That's a clear sign there's something lacking.
I haven't come across any horrible hacks, that I'm aware of, but of course my interest is only in certain parts of the tree. >> 2. "Add new global scope functions in any sane way" >> This is a valid use case, as seen by the eapi-2 update. But the way >> this is currently handled by portage (advising to upgrade the package >> manager) works. So I don't see a need to change the file extension for >> this reason. > > It means we can't start using those new global scope functions until > we're sure that everyone's going to be upgraded, because users get > extremely upset if they start seeing that kind of message. Isn't that a given anyway? I think the way eapi-2 was introduced into the tree wasn't particularly problematic. >> 3. "Extend versioning rules in an EAPI - for example, addition of the >> scm suffix - GLEP54 [1] or allowing more sensible version formats like >> 1-rc1, 1-alpha etc. to match upstream more closely." >> Apart from GLEP54, I believe our versioning scheme works reasonably >> well. I don't see any need to match upstream more closely. I'd rather >> like to keep the more uniform way of handling suffixes like rc and >> alpha, that we have now. > > Please explain why 1.2_rc3 is legal but 1.2-rc3 is not. Because we say so. We have chosen to do it a certain way. This works. It's uniform, it's simple, and therefor has a certain beauty to it. I see no pressing reason why we should start allowing alternative forms. -- Ben de Groot Gentoo Linux developer (qt, media, lxde, desktop-misc) Gentoo Linux Release Engineering PR liaison ______________________________________________________
