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!
>
>
> 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>
>
>
>

Something else I forgot to mention.

For tags support, there are also 2 indexed search utilities used by
users,  eix and esearch.  Also gentoolkit,s equery could also benefit
from tags support for it's searches.  Eix being c++ and both esearch and
equery being python based.

You should consider those as part of the work for tags support project.
-- 
Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>