On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 14:24:39 +0100 Dirkjan Ochtman <d...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> > wrote: > > Apart from that, they however sit in the way of deprecating support > > for that EAPI; at one point it becomes tedious to have to support > > 10 EAPIs in our code (eg. Portage), hence we should aim to > > deprecate versions of a few years old. Keeping old stuff around can > > take its toll... > > Sure, but Patrick was explicitly talking about a burden on developers, > not a burden on package manager implementers. Well, that package maintainers are called developers on Gentoo isn't helping the interpretation here; regardless of how one defines those, both maintainers and PM implementers have to be taken into account here. From quick thoughts the latter are a bit more affected than the former, but perhaps Patrick can highlight what he sees as a burden. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
