I appreciate your concern.  Actually, I had originally intended to do
a lot of planning and designing in the first few weeks, but in the end
my impatience got the better of me and I started coding.  I have some
fairly clear ideas in mind of how I expect it to be possible to have
options for different distros and I'm slowly working towards making
the code agree with those ideas - trying to write as much reusable
low-level code as possible, keep things that are Gentoo-dependent
high-level and compartmentalized from the more generic code, etc.  I'm
quite optimistic, and depending how far off that optimism is, I might
even change my mind by the end of the summer and try adding support
for some other package manager/distro.

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Arun Raghavan<arunissatan@...> wrote:
> 2009/6/23 Eitan Mosenkis <eitan@...>:
>> Thanks for the tip.  I'd actually seen SuSE studio earlier, but it's
>> by invitation only now, so I can't get much out of it (you can get an
>> invitation, but you have to commit to give them regular feedback and
>> all).  I am planning on making this project portable to other
>> distros/package managers than Gentoo/Portage, though I'll only be
>> writing the actual code for a Gentoo/Portage setup.
>
> While this is a worthy goal, do be careful not to over-engineer the
> solution to the point where it is getting in your way of making the
> kind of progress you need to meet your SoC deadlines.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Arun Raghavan
> http://arunraghavan.net/
> (Ford_Prefect | Gentoo) & (arunsr | GNOME)
>
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