Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory create in ebuilds

[Charles Lacour]

On Wednesday 07 August 2002 18:17, Marius Bernklev wrote:
> Mark Guertin <gerk@g.o> writes:
> > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 23:11, Marius Bernklev wrote:
> >> > you can also look at:
> >> > man 5 ebuild
> >> ...which is in dire need of updating.  As is the howto on http.
> > Does that mean you're volunteering? :P
>
> Oops.  Oh well, at least python is easy to read. :)
>
>
> Marius

_I'll_ volunteer to (re)write it, if someone will give me a boost up the 
learning curve with Python.

I want to write some ebuilds myself, but I lack the time to figure out Python 
cold.  I quit learning (most) new languages about the time object-oriented 
proogramming started up. The explanations of OOP in the early days were... 
cryptic? Obtuse? A tangled bunch of gobbledygook? Something in that general 
direction...    Anyway, I wasn't working as a programmer, so I dropped out of 
the "Language of the Month" club.

What I've seen of Python looks pretty easy, but there are some basic concepts 
I don't have, and trying to reason backward to them from somebody else's code 
hasn't worked too well.

I'd also like to get (and am willing to pay for with documentation of same) 
an explanation of what exactly it is that sandbox does. (And probably a 
couple of other pieces of portage.)

I know it keeps things from messing with the real filesystem, but _how_, 
specifically?  It's much harder to figure out why you're having a problem 
with something when you have no idea what it's doing.

Since quasi-teaching somebody a language via email and such is not real high 
on many people's list of fun things to do, I'll also put in a request for any 
good online tutorials on doing Python. (And if the doc for portage still 
needs to be done once I've mastered it, I'll be willing to help.)