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Fabian Groffen writes: |
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> Hi Sebastian, |
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> Have you considered a 100% automatic ebuild generator? Based on |
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> heuristics you can come quite far in generating a first shot. Think of |
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> tools like autoscan, and what brew create[1] for instance do. |
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Well it would be quite hard to make it 100% automatic as there are so many |
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ways you can unpack->prepare->compile->install. |
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Perhaps it would work for simple makefile projects but then you have scons, |
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cmake, python and java projects. |
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I have no idea how I would automaticly figure out the useflags, deps and |
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the build process without user input! |
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> What are the questions you envisage to present the user here? |
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It won't really be questions prompted to the user but inputfields where |
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you'll write how you would build it normally. |
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For example in the "How would you build/install" field you would for a |
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simple makefile project type: |
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make && make install |
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And the program should convert that to the corresponding commands in |
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src_compile() and src_install() |
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> In general, trying to come up with a use-case (or two) helps to get |
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> yourself a focus on what you would like to do, and what not. A clearly |
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> defined project has multiple advantages for everyone involved. |
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I thought that this would be to help with generation of small to medium |
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sized projects. But if I have time I will try to make it able to generate |
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a working firefox/blender ebuild ;) |
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I have some small projects that it will try to get it to build first |
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ofcourse. That way I can set milestones hopefully. |
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> How about interaction with an editor, such as Vim? Would a command-line |
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> based core be acceptable for you? It would help you to get it accepted |
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> in a broader audience. |
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Why indeed! I use most of my stuff from commandline, including vim. |
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> What language(s) would you like to use to work this thing out? |
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> Perhaps try to fit approaches like Perl's GPAN into your proposal. |
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> Likewise, Python's pypi packages may inspire you how to fully |
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> automatically create an ebuild from just an url. |
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I've only had courses in python and lisp (scheme/racket) so far. |
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I'm planning to write this in python. |
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