Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:24:06 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not if we move the rsync path properly so > > - older pm sync to a minimal try apt to upgrading portage and nothing > else > > - newer sync to the full tree now supporting the newer an better and > honey and milk eapi.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:59:53 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Wow that doesn't half sound like nonsense. > > > > Unfortunately, it's not nonsense. It's entirely true. If you don't > > understand that then you can't contribute anything useful to the > > discussion, so kindly stay ou

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:37:27 -0700 Joe Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Assuming that the file extension must change to prevent current PMs > from trying to parse new format ebuilds (and not require waiting a > year or more), I'd be a lot happier seeing it change *once* to a new > fixed extens

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:19:45 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > > On Thursday 20 of December 2007 19:29:22 Zhang Le wrote: > >> So please make those people understand, so they can comment > >> usefully. > > > > Are we in the elementary school or something? T

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 06:35:07 + Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oh yeah I forgot, McCreesh thinks they're all idiots[1] No no. I think some of them are idiots. Get it right. > Funny thing is I think the USE-flag metadata > thing would have breezed through as a GLEP; I don't recall one

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 55] EAPI subdirectories instead of file name suffixes

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:41:02 +0200 Petteri Räty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Piotr Jaroszyński kirjoitti: > > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for > > ebuilds (for example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). > > It seems many people don't like the idea of having it in the filename > but

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:34:17 +0100 Piotr Jaroszyński <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 20 of December 2007 19:29:22 Zhang Le wrote: > > So please make those people understand, so they can comment > > usefully. > > Are we in the elementary school or something? Yes, for all intents and pur

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP 55] EAPI subdirectories instead of file name suffixes

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Long
Piotr Jaroszy?ski wrote: > On Saturday 22 of December 2007 02:41:02 Petteri Räty wrote: >> Piotr Jaroszy?ski kirjoitti: >> > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for ebuilds >> > (for example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). >> >> It seems many people don't like the idea of having it in

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Long
Duncan wrote: > our users -- Gentoo sysadmins by another name. THANK YOU! Finally someone said it (and explained it better than I could.) All our users-- the ones who deal with the glitches that can arise in a source distro which binary users never see-- have the skill level of an admin anywhere

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Luca Barbato
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 03:41:04 Luca Barbato wrote: >>> * We have to wait a year before we can use it. >> We have to wait till we got a new release and I hope it isn't 12months. > > And then we have to wait till noone use a version of portage that sources the > ebu

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Luca Barbato
Michael Haubenwallner wrote: > On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > >> I'm thinking about having them embedded in the comment as first line as >> something like >> >> #!/usr/bin/env emerge --eapi $foo > > OT: It actually works adding this first line and do chmod +x foo.ebuild:

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Luca Barbato
Piotr Jaroszyński wrote: > On Thursday 20 of December 2007 19:29:22 Zhang Le wrote: >> So please make those people understand, so they can comment usefully. > > Are we in the elementary school or something? This is really getting > ridiculous. > ietf.org Are they ridiculous? lu -- Luca Bar

Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK 2.8

2007-12-21 Thread Michal Kurgan
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:31:54 -0600 Ryan Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ ... ] Thanks for all your work with wxWidgets packages. -- Michal Kurgan http://dev.gentoo.org/~moloh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP 55] EAPI subdirectories instead of file name suffixes

2007-12-21 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Saturday 22 of December 2007 02:41:02 Petteri Räty wrote: > Piotr Jaroszyński kirjoitti: > > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for ebuilds > > (for example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). > > It seems many people don't like the idea of having it in the filename Seems you are count

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Duncan
Ciaran McCreesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:59:22 +: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:43:43 -0500 > Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> > Please don't comment any further until you understand how this whole

[gentoo-dev] [GLEP 55] EAPI subdirectories instead of file name suffixes

2007-12-21 Thread Petteri Räty
Piotr Jaroszyński kirjoitti: > This GLEP proposes usage of EAPI-suffixed file extensions for ebuilds (for > example, foo-1.2.3.ebuild-1). It seems many people don't like the idea of having it in the filename but how about having subdirectories for different eapis. This should even be faster for th

[gentoo-dev] Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Long
Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Friday 21 December 2007 03:41:04 Luca Barbato wrote: >> > * We have to wait a year before we can use it. >> >> We have to wait till we got a new release and I hope it isn't 12months. > > And then we have to wait till noone use a version of portage that sources > the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Long
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:48:31 + > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> No: without knowing the EAPI when generating said data. If that >> >> needs to be known relatively soon in order to generate the rest, >> >> extract it early. You still only need to load the fi

[gentoo-dev] Re: EAPI definition Was: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Duncan
Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:15:10 +0800: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: >> Package manager EAPIs don't belong in the main tree, but they have uses >> outside of it. > > Then would you please introduce how paludis-1 EAPI differs from o

[gentoo-dev] wxGTK 2.8

2007-12-21 Thread Ryan Hill
Time to close bug #145884. After over a year of waiting (but still way ahead of Debian), wxGTK 2.8 is finally coming to Gentoo. I'd like to thank everyone for their patience while we got the wrinkles ironed out. Many of the problems we've had previously with wxWidgets in Gentoo were due in g

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Petteri Räty
Richard Freeman kirjoitti: > > How is having a line that states EAPI=foo in the ebuild any less trivial > than putting a -foo at the end of the filename? If anything the latter > is more typing - since the EAPI=foo line would probably be in skel.ebuild... > EAPI=foo is already in skel.ebuild bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in rox-base/rox: ChangeLog rox-2.7-r2.ebuild

2007-12-21 Thread Jim Ramsay
Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15:05 Mon 17 Dec , Jim Ramsay (lack) wrote: > > lack07/12/17 15:05:57 > > IUSE="+svg +video" > > svg already defaults on for all the desktop profiles, so I'm not > really sure what that's gaining you. Good point, removed '+' there > > R

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Joe Peterson
Assuming that the file extension must change to prevent current PMs from trying to parse new format ebuilds (and not require waiting a year or more), I'd be a lot happier seeing it change *once* to a new fixed extension, with the requirement that the new ebuilds are required to contain within them

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Some new global USE-flags

2007-12-21 Thread Santiago M. Mola
On Dec 20, 2007 10:48 PM, Jan Kundrát <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Santiago M. Mola wrote: > > These are potentially ambiguos. > > Could you please elaborate a bit about the raw one? > Just that "raw" could mean more things. Anyway, I have no problem with that since current packages in the tree us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Project Update: qt-4

2007-12-21 Thread Caleb Tennis
This is a followup that I am now committing "qt4-build.eclass" with a lot of the redundant functions for building Qt4 put into it. The only packages that use/depend on it are currently masked, so feel free to comment here with things you'd like to see changed in the eclass. Caleb -- [EMAIL PROT

Re: EAPI definition Was: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 20:01:55 Zhang Le wrote: > IMO, we can not have more than two EAPI's simultaneously. That defeats the whole purpose of having EAPIs. Which is to keep a sane upgrade path... -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 21 December 2007 05:46:35 Josh Saddler wrote: > Who cares? Gentoo uses the ebuild/bash-with-shebang format. If you're > trying to shove in something outside of that, that would be a package > manager-specific format. Like XML-stuff (that can't include the shebang > or EAPI="foo" at the to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 21 December 2007 03:41:04 Luca Barbato wrote: > > * We have to wait a year before we can use it. > > We have to wait till we got a new release and I hope it isn't 12months. And then we have to wait till noone use a version of portage that sources the ebuild to get the EAPI. Unless we ch

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 22:33:25 Joe Peterson wrote: > Technical reasons to avoid the filename are: > > 2) Having the same info in more than one place is bad (requiring extra > repoman checks and the potential for ambiguity). As opposed to adding checks to make sure that obtaining the EAPI fr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 20 December 2007 17:14:52 Thomas Pani wrote: > > Are we Debian now? A new feature gets implemented (obviously because we > > *need* it) and we can make use of it in a *year*? > > No, we're not Debian, thank god. I thought the "wait 1+ year" policy > changed? Again citing Ciaran: "That w

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 21 December 2007 05:25:00 Zhang Le wrote: > The question is really simple. > Whether we should have two different place to define EAPI? We need two places because it wasn't implemented properly in the first place and we want to retain backwards compatibility for people who use old versi

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 17:22 +0100, Luca Barbato wrote: > I'm thinking about having them embedded in the comment as first line as > something like > > #!/usr/bin/env emerge --eapi $foo OT: It actually works adding this first line and do chmod +x foo.ebuild: #! /usr/bin/env ebuild Then you can d

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:43:43 -0500 Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Please don't comment any further until you understand how this whole > > thing works. > > I think this is a bit of an unrealistic expectation. This change > impacts EVERYBODY - devs, users,

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas Anderson
On Friday 21 December 2007 08:43:43 Richard Freeman wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Please don't comment any further until you understand how this whole > > thing works. > CON: > Yet another value to be parsed out of an increasingly-complex filename. > Doesn't look pretty :) Taste is a matter

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Freeman
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 12:48:31 + > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Point is that your filename format restricts it in exactly the same >> manner. So let's just stick with the use cases which /that/ supports, >> which can more easily be supported with the original

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Freeman
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Please don't comment any further until you understand how this whole > thing works. > I think this is a bit of an unrealistic expectation. This change impacts EVERYBODY - devs, users, etc. To expect people not to comment on it simply because they're not qualified to wri

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:29:34 -0500 Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Ok. What's the EAPI for the following ebuild that's written in an > > EAPI that hasn't been published yet? And how would I extract it? > > > > # Copyright blah blah > > > > import vim-spell

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:29:25 +0100 Rémi Cardona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : > > Developers have to know about EAPIs. It's part of knowing how to > > write ebuilds. There's no way around that -- if you're writing > > ebuilds, you have to know what you are and aren't allowe

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Rémi Cardona
Ciaran McCreesh a écrit : > Developers have to know about EAPIs. It's part of knowing how to write > ebuilds. There's no way around that -- if you're writing ebuilds, you > have to know what you are and aren't allowed to do in those ebuilds. Then please try to keep things simple :) The majority o

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Richard Freeman
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Ok. What's the EAPI for the following ebuild that's written in an EAPI > that hasn't been published yet? And how would I extract it? > > # Copyright blah blah > > import vim-spell using language="en" > Counterexample. How do you determine the eapi for the following

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
On Thursday 20 of December 2007 19:29:22 Zhang Le wrote: > So please make those people understand, so they can comment usefully. Are we in the elementary school or something? This is really getting ridiculous. -- Best Regards, Piotr Jaroszyński -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in x11-libs/qt-opengl: qt-opengl-4.4.0_rc1.ebuild metadata.xml ChangeLog Manifest

2007-12-21 Thread Caleb Tennis
> Did you autogenerate these ebuilds? It looks like the deps were pulled > out of a conditional in the original qt. They were pulled out, but they weren't autogenerated. It's all still a work in progress. > I've seen this in all of the split qt ebuilds. Should it go in the eclass? Yep, going to

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:18:53 +0100 Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well putting the eapi per tree/repo and provide a way to fetch > directly the tree a package manager can understand sounds pretty much > a simpler alternative. And it defeats the whole point of having EAPI at all. > Add

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Luca Barbato
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:24:26 +0100 > Luca Barbato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Since seems that enough people are against this glep and many are >> undecided I started polling around for alternatives... > > But there has yet to be a correct technical objection, nor a corr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:58:15 +0100 Thomas Pani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800 > > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory. > >> But an total outsider has no chance to deduc

Re: [gentoo-dev] [GLEP] Use EAPI-suffixed ebuilds (.ebuild-EAPI)

2007-12-21 Thread Thomas Pani
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:59:14 +0800 > Zhang Le <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And file extension like welcome.html.fr is quite self-explanatory. >> But an total outsider has no chance to deduce what the 1 in ebuild-1 >> means on his own. > > A total outsider doesn't need to