Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-29 Thread Jeroen Roovers
On Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:36:01 -0800 Brian Harring wrote: > People have problems as is dealing w/ eclasses changing and their > dependencies in external repositories not being updated; this > complicates that issue and introduces the same potential into > gentoo-x86 itself. That's not beneficia

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-29 Thread Francesco Riosa
2011/12/29 Brian Harring : > On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 02:37:07AM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> 2011/12/28 Zac Medico : >> > On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> >> Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as >> >> a parent function that call the underling f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-28 Thread Brian Harring
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 02:37:07AM +, Francesco Riosa wrote: > 2011/12/28 Zac Medico : > > On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > >> Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as > >> a parent function that call the underling function can solve most of > >> th

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-28 Thread Francesco Riosa
2011/12/28 Zac Medico : > On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as >> a parent function that call the underling function can solve most of >> the versioning/deprecation problems > > I've overheard Arfrever discussing a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-28 Thread Francesco Riosa
2011/12/28 Zac Medico : > On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: >> Disclaimer: this is just one idea that come at lunch, and sharing (in >> a short pause before my demanding daughter request me) here to not >> forget in the next busy days. >> >> Seem to me that append a time slice to the f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-28 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as > a parent function that call the underling function can solve most of > the versioning/deprecation problems I've overheard Arfrever discussing a similar approach in funtoo's irc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-28 Thread Zac Medico
On 12/28/2011 05:12 AM, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Disclaimer: this is just one idea that come at lunch, and sharing (in > a short pause before my demanding daughter request me) here to not > forget in the next busy days. > > Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as > a

[gentoo-dev] Versioning of eclasses and possibly functions inside ebuilds

2011-12-28 Thread Francesco Riosa
Disclaimer: this is just one idea that come at lunch, and sharing (in a short pause before my demanding daughter request me) here to not forget in the next busy days. Seem to me that append a time slice to the function, in the name or as a parent function that call the underling function can solve