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Hi Sebastian, |
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On 20-03-2011 19:18:54 +0100, darkdefende@×××××.com wrote: |
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> I was thinking about doing a ebuild generator like a "install wizard". What |
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> I mean with this is that it will have input fields for deps, useflags, where |
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> to get the sources and how (tarball?/Git?/SVN?...) and the different stages |
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> in the ebuild (unpack,compile,install...). |
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Have you considered a 100% automatic ebuild generator? Based on |
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heuristics you can come quite far in generating a first shot. Think of |
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tools like autoscan, and what brew create[1] for instance do. |
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> However I aim at making it as simple so that it will basically "ask" you how |
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> you would build it normally and it will put together an ebuild for you. |
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What are the questions you envisage to present the user here? |
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> This will obviously be usefull for beginners or people (perhaps devs?) that |
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> doesn't use gentoo. It might also come in handy with small projects. |
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> But that doesn´t mean that I'll not try to make it usefull for larger projects |
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> as well. |
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In general, trying to come up with a use-case (or two) helps to get |
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yourself a focus on what you would like to do, and what not. A clearly |
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defined project has multiple advantages for everyone involved. |
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> An other thing is that I will make the generator independent of the GUI so that |
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> you can write clients to it in whatever you wish. But I will mainly focus on |
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> a GTK client first to get it working. After that I will try to make a webapp |
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> for it as dol-sen on the IRC channel suggested. |
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How about interaction with an editor, such as Vim? Would a command-line |
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based core be acceptable for you? It would help you to get it accepted |
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in a broader audience. |
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> C&C is hugely appreciated to flesh out this proposal. |
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What language(s) would you like to use to work this thing out? |
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Perhaps try to fit approaches like Perl's GPAN into your proposal. |
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Likewise, Python's pypi packages may inspire you how to fully |
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automatically create an ebuild from just an url. |
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[1] http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ |
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Regards, |
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Fabian Groffen |
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Gentoo on a different level |
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