On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 5:54 PM Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Quoting ciaranm [1]:
>
> | > "EAPIs whose value starts with the string paludis- are reserved for
> | > experimental use by the Paludis package manager."
> |
> | Don't tell anyone, but that's mostly just in there because some people
> | insisted that EAPIs were numbers (and thus comparable), so I wanted an
> | explicit mention of one that wasn't.
>
The other aspect of it is that they cannot be assumed to be ordered.
You could at some point in the future have a branching hierarchy of
sorts where some EAPIs contain some features and others contain
others, with neither being a superset of the other even accounting for
deprecation.
I get that we haven't generally done that historically, but you
shouldn't be doing ordered/range/etc comparisons with EAPIs (ie "if
EAPI < 5 do this, else do that"). Such things should always be based
on explicit values ("if EAPI in (1,2,3,4) do this, else do that").
--
Rich
