Re: [gentoo-dev] Web-based Portage Frontend

["Philippe Lafoucrière" <lafou@wanadoo.fr>]

Here is another portage front end I'm working on (to learn Woven from 
twistedmatrix.com). I'm currently working on pages with non-bloquing 
rendering.

http://wwwetu.utc.fr/~plafoucr/gentoo/gat.tgz

use the start.sh script to start the app, and then connect to 
http://localhost:8080


On Sunday 23 November 2003 13:00, Benjamin Judas wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm planning to do a web-based Portage (i.e. emerge) frontend. I'm doing
> this just for fun, however it would be nice if I could get some support.
> There are some problems for me understanding portage's API so what I did
> now is using the original "emerge" and "portage.py" and modify it so I
> can include it into my scripts.
>
> Since Portage is approaching onto some major changes in its API, I am
> not sure if the frontend would work with future Versions of Portage; I'm
> using the latest x86-Portage.
>
> I already talked to genone, he said it would be no problem if I would
> use and modify their code and pyrania told me, that he had the Idea of
> an API-library so that all major functions could be encapsuled into
> easy-to-use functions (for example : def merge_packet(cpv):).
>
> Having such a library would make things a lot easier for people that
> want to provide alternative frontends.
>
> I can't show you any code right now except my quick-and-dirty hacks to
> test some functions and preparing the basis for webportage. These hacks
> are - as I already mentioned - the changes in emerge and portage.py to
> make it work with a web-based environment.
>
> If there is any interest in this project it would be nice if I could get
> some help by people who already made their way through Portage's code
> and have a basic to good understanding of how things work.
>
> Thanks in advance
>     Benjamin "beejay" Judas


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