Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-08 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On 00:39 Fri 05 Sep , Zac Medico wrote: > David Leverton wrote: > > 2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler > >> for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. > > > > But is it so much simpler

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 05 September 2008 00:58:05 Zac Medico wrote: >  * Default phase function implementations for older EAPIs are >    accessible via functions having names that start with 'eapi', >    followed by the EAPI value. Based on the lack of use cases or further responses to [1] I would suggest remo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Petteri Räty
Alec Warner kirjoitti: On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Leverton wrote: 2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file nam

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 05 September 2008, Mike Auty wrote: > From what I understand of the idea, the eclass will just change the > SRC_URI field from the first case (sf=tgz) to the second case (->). > Eclasses have to be sourced before the SRC_URI is determined because > they can already add (and presumably alt

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Buchholz wrote: > How is using the eclass better for bandwidth usage? It won't allow for > mirroring, and all users would have to checkout the repository from one > place. Furthermore, you cannot have (signed) Manifests that allow > integrity

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Mike Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Buchholz wrote: > How is using the eclass better for bandwidth usage? It won't allow for > mirroring, and all users would have to checkout the repository from one > place. Furthermore, you cannot have (signed) Manifests that allow > integrity

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Robert Buchholz
On Friday 05 September 2008, Fernando J. Pereda wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:39:16AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > > David Leverton wrote: > > > 2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little > > >> simpler for ebuild writer if they

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Alec Warner
On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > David Leverton wrote: >> 2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler >>> for ebuild writer if they don't

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Fernando J. Pereda
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:39:16AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > David Leverton wrote: > > 2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler > >> for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. > > > > But is it

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: > 2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler >> for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. > > But is it so much simpler as to jus

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/5 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Both approaches are essentially equivalent but it's a little simpler > for ebuild writer if they don't have to customize the output file name. But is it so much simpler as to justify adding a special gitweb-specific hack to the package managers?

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-05 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Leverton wrote: > 2008/9/4 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz >> extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. >> >> * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customizati

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread David Leverton
2008/9/4 Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > * The 'unpack' helper function recognizes ;sf=tbz2 and ;sf=tgz > extensions, for interoperability with gitweb. > > * SRC_URI supports a syntax extension which allows customization > of output file names by using a "->" operator. Is it useful to have

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] EAPI 2 Draft

2008-09-04 Thread Zac Medico
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Please review and discuss the following features which are proposed for inclusion EAPI 2. As mentioned in my previous email [1], in planning for this EAPI bump, we should strike a balance somewhere in-between everything that we'd like to