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From: Jason Stubbs <jasonbstubbs@×××××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Web-based Portage Frontendg
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 05:39:13
Message-Id: 200311261439.02041.jasonbstubbs@mailandnews.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Web-based Portage Frontendg by Jason Mobarak
1 On Wednesday 26 November 2003 13:01, Jason Mobarak wrote:
2 > My only suggestion is to make your own code feature enough abstract
3 > encapsulation of portage that you can easily change how it may interact
4 > with future versions (i.e., MVC or similar design patterns). Currently I'm
5 > working on separating portage into a library of python packages but it's
6 > slow work and I currently have no one who seems greatly interested in
7 > helping. Hopefully I'll be able to finish before the end of December.
8 >
9 > However, I am looking to add several things to the current portage,
10 > documentation, unit tests, modularity, and encapsulation of basic
11 > operations (possibly using interfaces to define what methods certain class
12 > should have in order to perform certain actions).
13
14 I'd be interested in helping in that. I don't have too much free time, have
15 only just started using Python and have yet to understand how the more
16 important functionality works (the digraph class and all the dep_ functions)
17 but I'm a very quick learner and would only be a liability for a very short
18 time. :-)
19
20 Let me know if you're interested.
21
22 Regards,
23 Jason (too)
24
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