On 08/30/2012 12:28 PM, Johannes Huber wrote: > Hello gentoo devs, > > From last council meeting summary: > [snip] >> Open floor >> ========== >> scarabeus suggested the change "dev should use latest eapi when bumping" >> to "dev must use latest eapi when bumping if not forbidden by eclasses". >> He was asked to bring it up on the mailing lists, to get a better >> definition of when what EAPI should be used. > [/snip] > > I raised the issue through scarabeus, as in my opinion there is no reason to > not use latest EAPI. So please discuss. > > Greetings,
Could you elaborate what the reasons FOR it are (not that I don't know any, but you brought it up) since this will add work for every developer to check a) how the behavior of the new EAPI impacts the current ebuild and b) how the behvaior of inherited eclasses change depending on EAPI.
