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I'd also be interested in hearing about any really good Python |
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tutorials/books for people coming at it fresh and with a very rusty |
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programming background...grin.... |
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Thanks, |
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Sean |
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-----Original Message----- |
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From: Charles Lacour [mailto:gentoo-dev@×××××××.com] |
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Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 21:10 |
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To: Marius Bernklev; Mark Guertin |
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Cc: |
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory create in ebuilds |
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On Wednesday 07 August 2002 18:17, Marius Bernklev wrote: |
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> Mark Guertin <gerk@g.o> writes: |
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> > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 23:11, Marius Bernklev wrote: |
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> >> > you can also look at: |
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> >> > man 5 ebuild |
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> >> ...which is in dire need of updating. As is the howto on http. |
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> > Does that mean you're volunteering? :P |
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> Oops. Oh well, at least python is easy to read. :) |
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> Marius |
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_I'll_ volunteer to (re)write it, if someone will give me a boost up the |
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learning curve with Python. |
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I want to write some ebuilds myself, but I lack the time to figure out |
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Python |
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cold. I quit learning (most) new languages about the time |
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object-oriented |
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proogramming started up. The explanations of OOP in the early days |
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were... |
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cryptic? Obtuse? A tangled bunch of gobbledygook? Something in that |
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general |
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direction... Anyway, I wasn't working as a programmer, so I dropped |
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out of |
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the "Language of the Month" club. |
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What I've seen of Python looks pretty easy, but there are some basic |
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concepts |
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I don't have, and trying to reason backward to them from somebody else's |
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code |
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hasn't worked too well. |
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I'd also like to get (and am willing to pay for with documentation of |
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same) |
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an explanation of what exactly it is that sandbox does. (And probably a |
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couple of other pieces of portage.) |
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I know it keeps things from messing with the real filesystem, but _how_, |
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specifically? It's much harder to figure out why you're having a |
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problem |
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with something when you have no idea what it's doing. |
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Since quasi-teaching somebody a language via email and such is not real |
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high |
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on many people's list of fun things to do, I'll also put in a request |
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for any |
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good online tutorials on doing Python. (And if the doc for portage still |
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needs to be done once I've mastered it, I'll be willing to help.) |
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