On 12 March 2012 21:14, Ulrich Mueller <u...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, James Broadhead wrote: > >> I'm sure that it's been considered already, but what are the arguments >> against embedding the EAPI on a per-package (default) or per-version >> basis in metadata.xml. It IS metadata after all. > > You can find a recent discussion in bug 402167, comment #4 and > following. <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402167#c4> > > Ulrich >
That makes sense (actually, it calls for metadata.xml to be converted to json even without bundling EAPI in there). If repoman validated metadata.json based on a clear definition in PMS, that would be a valid solution to the problem (that wouldn't require external libraries beyond python)
