On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:20:59 +0100 Patrick Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 13:11 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:59:52 +0100 Patrick Lauer
| > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | No, a version bump of vim-plugin-1.2.eclass to
| > | vim-plugin-1.3.eclass. So if you accidenally break something I can
| > | revert to 1.2 withou doing weird cvs-fu and overlay hacks.
| > 
| > Weird cvs-fu? Hardly... cvs log and cvs diff aren't exactly
| > difficult.
| For devs.
| What about broken stuff on the user side of things?

They file a bug.

| > No need to stick all sorts of weirdness into portage just because a
| > few people are too lazy to read the cvs docs. Once you know how to
| > use it, cvs is a lot simpler than trying to manually diff dozens of
| > files.
| Ok, but it still doesn't solve the problem of mutating eclasses.

No, that one's solved by versionator.

Really, I think you should put together a proper detailed list of what
you think versioned eclasses would actually solve, so that I don't have
to keep on discussing things with two different people who have very
different ideas as to what the problem in question is...

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools)
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