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On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 14:19 -0400, Alec Warner wrote: |
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> Christopher Korn wrote: |
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> >>>Hi Jason and other folks, |
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> >>>I saw your last comment on |
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> >>>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73350 about most the these |
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> >>>feature to be present in the next major version. That is really |
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> >>>great to read. |
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> >>>On that subject, I'd like to have an idea about when we should |
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> >>>expect that next version. |
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> >>>That said, I think it would be helpful to have a portage developper |
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> >>>site. Perhaps there is and I dont know... |
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> >> That would require someone writing one, so if you are |
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> >>volunteering ;) |
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> >> |
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> >> |
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> > |
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> >Writing is not the problem. But without (proper) information it is hard |
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> >to write a documentation or something like this. |
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> >Chris |
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> I had a wiki that attempted to cover portage-2.0 api documentation as |
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> well as anything written for 2.1 but lost much of the work in a |
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> transition from windows to linux ( I screwed up the SQl backups :) ). |
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> I thought about putting something up on the devwiki but I haven't |
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> proposed anything because no one really likes a wiki for API docs. |
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> As for API docs, there are none at present; and there are no plans for |
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> any stable docs, IIRC. |
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> As for a developer website, what kinds of information are you looking for? |
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Like you talked about, doc would be nice, Jason has some doc, api doc... |
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here: |
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http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/ |
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but it does not look and is not official. |
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I remember, when I started using Gentoo, reading that portage is a stand |
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alone tool, it is not bind into Gentoo in anyway, someone could use it |
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on redhat, debian, lfs... |
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Back then I was using lfs so I thought portage could be the way to go on |
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lfs, but I realized that Gentoo fit my needs and I did'nt have to |
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compile everything by hand anymore and still have everything compiled by |
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my machines :) OH JOY !!! |
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But 5 years or so later, the only official place to get portage releases |
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is still in the gentoo mirrors. There is no RSS feed or anything like |
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that. I still believe that portage has the potential to be so powerful |
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that redhat, debian, ... could be building their packages using portage, |
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managing their own tree, having night build. |
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The problem is see, is that the initial portage vision (or perhaps my |
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initial vision, a vision I still have) has not been carried along with |
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it's developpement. |
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Having an official web site, doc, ... will help getting visibility and |
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effort from the rest of the world thus we'll have better tools and |
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eventually extend portage beyond Gentoo. |
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Kristian |
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