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Sebastian Pipping wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> app-portage/mirrorselect is a single file Python program. |
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> It contains a class MirrorParser that parses mirrors.xml from the Gentoo |
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> website. I would like to use that code (unmodified) for my GSoC |
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> project. |
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> My request is to extract an extra file for that class from |
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> mirrorselect so the Gentoo part of smolt can depend on mirrorselect |
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> in the near future instead of shipping a "dependency fork" forever. |
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> mirrorselect's author seems to be Colin Kingsley (tercel@g.o.) whom |
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> I cannot find in the list of current gentoo devs. |
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> Please let me know if you can help/guide/.. with this. |
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> Sebastian |
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It's only about 30 lines of code, so I wouldn't worry too much about |
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this "dependency fork" thing. Maybe if it was larger then I would. |
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So, I suggest that you simply copy it and include a comment about |
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its origin. |
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Thanks, |
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Zac |
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