Re: [gentoo-dev] creating ebuilds

[Robert Cole <robert.cole@support4linux.com>]

On Tue January 06 2004 1:09 pm, Spider wrote:
> 3b) QC,  by developer of the strictest sense. A lot of people failto
> grasp even the most basic concepts of  ebuild programming and / or the
> case of boolean logic. ( if foo then bar ; then baz.....  or was that or
> baz?  or ... or.... if foo then bar... then we ignore the case of not
> foo?  )
>
> > ** Assuming everything is perfect
> > a. Ebuild works fine, no patches need to be applied/software is now
> > known stable.
>
> No. its not, we have yet no conclusion as to wether the build is
> complete or not. Does it build all documentation? are the files really
> with that license?   are the dependencies correct according to
> configure.*  or did it just happen to work on a fully installed system?
>
> Is all functionality accounted for in the dependencies, or will it build
> without, say X, but with reduced functionality?  None of this is checked
> for, and almost none of them are accountable by automagic.

I guess I think a little differently in that my response to the above is: You 
mean ebuild creators don't already do this? 

I don't say that to be funny, honest. I just can't seeing letting ANYONE even 
see an ebuild I create without having done all those checks in the first 
place! Then after that I would give it to my sponsor to give a brutal 
evaluation of it and then and only then after further changes and testing 
would I ask it to be included in the tree.

I don't know maybe I'm wierd or something it just comes from my early 
programming instructors in the mid 80s, document, document, document, test, 
test, test and then test some more.

> Conclusion : please, write a GLEP. i want to see this discussed more,
> but in a whole new thread.

Agree this thread is dead.

I feel I got a much better understanding of the whole gentoo dev process and I 
feel it was pretty good and most of it was useful back and forth. Overall a 
decent thread I think. Lets all just try to relax now. :) Let's go back to 
playing nice in the sandbox :)

BTW, Happy new year! 

Robert

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