[gentoo-portage-dev] Re: equery refactorization

[Douglas Anderson]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 7:21 AM, Michael Smith <michael@××××××××.com> wrote:
> I had the same idea and even began working on a roadmap for it.
>
> Step 1: move gentoolkit to site-packages
> Step 2: move individual command classes to functionally-organized
> module-files
> Step 3: refactor and enhance docstrings to allow primary help/usage()
> function to construct from individual modules. (The goal here is to create a
> drop-in mechanism for adding new modules, so that usage() is automatically
> updated when a new module is added.)
> Step 4: Profit!
>
> Actually another approach would be to create a core __init__.py that handled
> the usage() and getopt functionality I outlined in Step 3 above, and then
> one-by-one modify the individual modules that are in the current equery so
> they could be dropped in.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Michael
>
> On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:01 AM, Douglas Anderson wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'm interesting in tinkering with equery and doing some
>> refactorization in my spare time. I wrote a script that some people
>> mentioned would be a good module for equery (emeta, it's on bugzilla), but
>> as I was looking into that, I noticed that equery is written as a script,
>> even though it would probably really benifit from being modularized.
>>
>> Again, this is just because I have some free time right now and a
>> willingness to learn about Portage, but I thought I'd check with you guys
>> first. If I'm willing to do it without bother you all too much, would it be
>> something you're interested in me doing? My idea is to set it up more like a
>> Python package than a script, like:
>> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/equery/
>> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/equery/__init__.py
>> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/equery/belongs.py
>> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/equery/check.py
>> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/pym/gentoolkit/equery/depends.py
>> etc...
>>
>> I think it would increase startup time and make adding or upgraded modules
>> easier in the future.
>>
>> Well, I have a few more questions but I'll wait and see if this would be a
>> positive thing or not.
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>> -Doug
>
>
>

Great, I'd like to give this a try, then.

Michael, I was personally going to go for your "other approach" of
having an __init__.py do all the setup and handle the input and send
the local opts to the individual modules. If you're interested in
working on it together, that would be great. I have a googlecodes repo
that we can work out of, or whatever (same goes for anyone else) :)
I'll also open up a bug for it when I have some work done.

A little RFC:
1) Spaces or tabs? Python standard is spaces, Gentoo seems to be
predominantly tabs. I personally like to use spaces when I'm writing
Python, but if that would annoy everyone later on, I'll stick to tabs.

2) Are there any other progs that depend on equery and gentoolkit that
you know of? If there are, I can try and keep an eye on things and
create as little hassle as possible.

Any other ideas?

-Doug