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René 'Necoro' Neumann wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I think, this is already somewhere on the agenda of portage (perhaps |
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> with a low priority ;)), but I nevertheless wanted to ask for the |
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> possibility to have as much of emerge's functionality exported in an API |
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> as possible =). |
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> The reason behind this is, that for Portato (this GUI thingy ;)), I have |
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> to re-implement lots of things that portage does (update functionality, |
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> parts of dep-string parsing etc). This is kind of sisyphean, because one |
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> has to: |
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> - notice/detect subtle changes (esp. the updating process often changes |
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> unnoticed in small points) |
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> - support tons of portage versions |
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> Especially with larger bumps (2.1.1 -> 2.1.2; -> 2.2) there are lots of |
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> things breaking and showing another behavior. |
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> In the sum, this work takes quite a large part of the whole development |
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> process ... though showing no results for the user ;) |
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> Thus, it would be really great, if I only had to use an API (which might |
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> change over time - but API changes are easier to track and to work around). |
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> Perhaps - as you currently seem to be restructuring the whole thing - |
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> you can bundle some things and export them :). I bet there are more |
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> people out there besides me, that use or want to use the portage API and |
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> would be thankful, when they don't have to reinvent things :) |
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Thanks for expressing your interest. Lots of things are about ready |
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to be exposed for external use now, so I'll try to focus on |
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splitting them out for API consumers as soon as I can. Maybe we can |
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expose some of these things before the 2.2 final release. |
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Zac |
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> Else - thank you guys for your great work :). It's very great to see |
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> portage's evolution over the last months. |
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> Regards, |
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> René |
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