[gentoo-soc] GSoC -- Week 7

[Detlev Casanova]

If you like lists :

Finish a working version of the interpreter
Make the interpreter work with arguments
Make the interpreter work with class instances
Read out the new layman API
Solve a problem that prevents functions from being executed
Create an overlay C class that uses the new layman API
Restructure classes
Add some methods to Overlay, fix some warnings
Implement Config and DbBase
Add a C <-> Python Dict class and fix DbBase to take a Dict for it's config 
argument
Get proper layman branch, Check what should really be implemented
Implement the whole LaymanAPI
Get the proper layman Python library and fix BareConfig constructor
Make tester and fix compilation issues

If you don't :

This week, I've decided that the interpreter is the best solution to execute 
python code, especially because what's going to be used is a stable Python 
API.

I've also written a C version of the layman API Brian Dolbec wrote earlier 
this week. It allows doing everything you need to do with Layman : 
add/remove/get information from/sync a layman overlay.

The C lib sources can be downloaded on my git repository : 

git clone http://soc.dev.gentoo.org/~cazou/c-portage c-portage

There is no building system yet, I'm working on it but having internet 
connexion issues does not help at all.

All you'll find in that repository is a 'src' directory. Enter it and type the 
compile command line :

gcc -W -Wall -L/usr/lib/python2.6/ -lpython2.6 -I/usr/include/python2.6/ -o 
tester --std=c99 -g *.c

and execute ./tester.

I you want it to work, You'll need Brian's Python layman API :

git clone http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~dol-sen/git/layman.git

and switch to the API branch

git checkout api

(if this last one does not work, try git checkout -b api remotes/origin/api)

You must know that memory management is still crappy and not everything has 
been tested.
Brian might also have pushed some updates to the code taht prevents from 
syncing an overlay.

Documentation will come but currently, it's the very same as Brian's layman 
API.

I also have to speak more, give more details and comment the code more, that's 
something I tend not to do and reminding it to me is a very good idea :-)

Detlev.