Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory create in ebuilds]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Directory create in ebuilds]

[oford]

 Try www.python.orgdoc/current/tut/tut.html
 
 it will get you up to speed pretty fast.  Also look at
 http://devshed.com site.  I have found plenty of useful things ther.
 
 /usr/local/sbin/owen
 
 
> On Wed, 2002-08-07 at 23:09, Charles Lacour wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 18:17, Marius Bernklev wrote:
> > > Mark Guertin <gerk@gentoo.org> writes:
> > > > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 23:11, Marius Bernklev wrote:
> > > >> > you can also look at:
> > > >> > man 5 ebuild
> > > >> ...which is in dire need of updating.  As is the howto on http.
> > > > Does that mean you're volunteering? :P
> > >
> > > Oops.  Oh well, at least python is easy to read. :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Marius
> > 
> > _I'll_ volunteer to (re)write it, if someone will give me a boost up the 
> > learning curve with Python.
> > 
> > I want to write some ebuilds myself, but I lack the time to figure out Python 
> > cold.  I quit learning (most) new languages about the time object-oriented 
> > proogramming started up. The explanations of OOP in the early days were... 
> > cryptic? Obtuse? A tangled bunch of gobbledygook? Something in that general 
> > direction...    Anyway, I wasn't working as a programmer, so I dropped out of 
> > the "Language of the Month" club.
> > 
> > What I've seen of Python looks pretty easy, but there are some basic concepts 
> > I don't have, and trying to reason backward to them from somebody else's code 
> > hasn't worked too well.
> > 
> > I'd also like to get (and am willing to pay for with documentation of same) 
> > an explanation of what exactly it is that sandbox does. (And probably a 
> > couple of other pieces of portage.)
> > 
> > I know it keeps things from messing with the real filesystem, but _how_, 
> > specifically?  It's much harder to figure out why you're having a problem 
> > with something when you have no idea what it's doing.
> > 
> > Since quasi-teaching somebody a language via email and such is not real high 
> > on many people's list of fun things to do, I'll also put in a request for any 
> > good online tutorials on doing Python. (And if the doc for portage still 
> > needs to be done once I've mastered it, I'll be willing to help.)
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