Re: [gentoo-soc] [GSoC2012] Interested in Tags support for Portage

[Brian Dolbec]

On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 18:27 +0900, Ryuichi KAWAMATA wrote:
> Hello.
>
> > As was noted in the wiki, this idea is too small for a complete project
> > on it's own.  You will need to add more to it in order for it to be
> > considered.
> I discussed this in gentoo-soc IRC yesterday.
> And, I decide to add another idea, "To implement tags support for Portato"
>
> I know CUI system is very useful because it can use over ssh, and
> normally it's lightly.
> But, if we need a system which has much information, I think GUI
> system is also good.
> Therefore, I propose this idea.
>
> I heard Portato developers are few too.
> So, I think this idea can help its developing.
>
> My goal in this GSoC idea is that;
> * To develop tags support for Portage
> * To develop tags support for Portato
>
> If there are some strange points in my plan, would you point it?
>
> Thanks!
>

The strange part, is that portato is behind in changes to portage, so it
no longer works correctly.  It has also been asked that we remove it
from the tree (by it's creator) for that reason.  Rather than that, we
would prefer if it was brought up to date.  Adding tags support to
portato, porthole, or any of the other python based guis would be fairly
easy once it was done in portage.  I would think it would not take more
than a couple days to add tags support to a gui once the code is in
operation in portage.

The best way to keep portato going is to update it's use of portage.
One of the best ways to do that is to finish the new public_api and
change portato to use it.  It at the very least needs the current code
updated to the current portage api.

>
> 2012/4/3 Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>:
> > On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 08:24 +0900, Ryuichi KAWAMATA wrote:
> >> Hello, everybody!
> >>
> >> My name is Ryuichi KAKWAMATA, a Japanese student.
> >> I'm a sophomore from April.
> >> (Japanese school starts from April to March. :D)
> >> I'm interesting in the idea "Tags support for Portage."
> >>
> >> I like portage because I think it's the cleverest package management system!!
> >> So, I use it in OSX as Gentoo Prefix too.
> >>
> >> Now, there is a idea to improve so, I want to develop it very much.
> >> I'm good at Python and C programming and knowledge about operating systems.
> >>
> >> I want to learn the OSS community and help it too.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >
> > Thank you for your interest.
> >
> > As was noted in the wiki, this idea is too small for a complete project
> > on it's own.  You will need to add more to it in order for it to be
> > considered.
> >
> > You might want to consider adding both eix and esearch to your proposal
> > to add tags support to their fast search db's.  I would be your contact
> > for work done to esearch.  Contact the upstream developer to discuss
> > adding tags support to eix.
> >
> > That will still likely not be enough to make it a complete project, so
> > you will need to come up with some additional work to do.  Preferably in
> > the same realm of work as the above, mostly portage.  One idea I have
> > would be to complete work on the portage public_api that was started but
> > needs additional work to complete.  That idea could fill in the project
> > timeline.  Contact me directly if you wish to discuss it further.
> > --
> > Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
>
>
>


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Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>