>>>>> On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > Bash-4 in EAPI-3 > > ---------------- > > Goal: A request has been made to allow bash-4.0 features in > > EAPI-3. Decide first whether or not to open the EAPI-3 feature > > list at all.
> No. bash-4 has seen some regressions and some oddities. 24 patches > in and its starting to seem remotely sane, except the problem is it > does not have wide scale adoption yet. I expect to see a lot of > patches coming. I agree. It's too early for bash-4 in the tree. Also Portage would have to depend on bash-4 then. > Additionally, EAPI-3 has been an ongoing thing long enough. The more > we keep pushing this off the more items should be shuffled in. We > decided what EAPI-3 was a long time back. Stick with that. This is not a strong argument. The current bottleneck is the implementation of EAPI-3 features in Portage. If we reopen the feature list, but allow only things that have zero implementation cost in Portage, then it would cause no additional delay. Ulrich
