Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] dispatch-conf

On 14:47 Wed 01 Jun     , Grant Goodyear wrote:
> Grant Goodyear wrote: [Wed Jun 01 2005, 02:38:51PM CDT]
> > Dear all,
> >   Is dispatch-conf still "barely-maintained", meaning that nobody is
> > really all that familiar with the code?  Agriffis has suggested that we
> > split dispatch-conf out of portage and either put it into gentoolkit or
> > make it its own package, and see if we can get some help
> > with maintaining it.
>
> Brian tells me that the symlink bug is fixed in ~arch, and that he
> doesn't object to breaking it out of portage.  Any other thoughts?
>
Hey all, i've contributed a few minor patches and am "mostly" firmilar
with the dispatch-conf code. recently i was contacted by another person
interested in dispatch-conf and we've disscussed some changes we are
going to be making to it, more advanced use of rcs, including easy
rollbacks and diffs and such, possible darcs support and some other nice
stuff. i've just completed my semester obligations and am starting work
on it, he will be completing his soon to join the work as well. i would
cerintally be willing to maintain it as i'll be doing alot of work with
it either way.

i'll be starting with weeding out that <<<<<< bug and taking a look at
the symlink bug you guys were disscussing, following that will be
enchancements to rcs handling.

also, with the changes we will be making to dispatch-conf i definatly
advocate breaking it out of portage, if it's a stand-alone utility it
will be easier to deal with the multiple options (perhaps use flags to
select rcs, darcs or flat files for revision history) and with the update
cycle which will hopefully be alot quicker this summer :)

let me know if anyone has any changes/fixes they would like to be looked
at let me know.


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