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On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:29 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: |
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> People, |
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> I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas from USERS, that's why I'm |
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> posting here. |
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> I've never found a program that would allow me to browse portage categories, then packages, showing |
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> in one window description, version, etc, etc. |
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Yes! |
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> Thus, I'm working on one now, but I want to develop something that will run in console and X, too, |
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> like suse's yast. |
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> So, I would like to know: |
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> 1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? |
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GUI primarily, but a console for scripting. |
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> 2) what additional functionality would you like? (mask/unmask packages, install/remove, emerge |
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> command generator [much like nmapfe], etc) |
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mask/unmask would be nice, but it's not absolutely necessary |
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install/remove is necessary ;-) |
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emerge command generator might be useful in a scripting application |
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> If you have any idea regarding development (because of the both console and X-compatible |
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> script/program), please let me know. If not, I may end up writing an API, and two different programs. |
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Python can handle both scripting and GUI, and of course portage is |
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written (mostly? completely?) in python, so I'd suggest ... python |
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(surprise!). I might consider jython if there is a compelling reason to |
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use Java. |
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--- Vladimir |
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Vladimir G. Ivanovic |
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