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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Rafael Martins |
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<rafael@×××××××××××××××××.br> wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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>> On 18:09 Fri 29 Jul , Rafael Martins wrote: |
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>>> I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by |
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>>> portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the |
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>>> package managers willing to implement distfile patching support. |
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>> Wouldn't package managers prefer an API rather than a helper tool? |
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> Yes. Actually the Python API of the tools is usable by package |
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> managers, but this won't work for paludis, I guess. I'm just |
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> implementing Portage support for now, though. |
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> On the other hand, I want to be able to change the internal API, if |
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> needed. In this case, I need a helper tool or a stable public API will |
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> be required. I picked the first to make the things easy for all the |
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> package managers. |
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> Best regards, |
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> Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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> http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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s/will be required// |
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-- |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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