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On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 18:09 Fri 29 Jul , Rafael Martins wrote: |
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>> I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by |
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>> portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the |
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>> package managers willing to implement distfile patching support. |
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> Wouldn't package managers prefer an API rather than a helper tool? |
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Yes. Actually the Python API of the tools is usable by package |
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managers, but this won't work for paludis, I guess. I'm just |
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implementing Portage support for now, though. |
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On the other hand, I want to be able to change the internal API, if |
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needed. In this case, I need a helper tool or a stable public API will |
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be required. I picked the first to make the things easy for all the |
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package managers. |
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Best regards, |
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Rafael Goncalves Martins |
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http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ |
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