From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j25370sl013010 for ; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 03:07:00 GMT Received: from p061204005213.ppp.prin.ne.jp ([61.204.5.213] helo=localhost.localdomain) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1D7Pco-0003LV-D1 for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 Mar 2005 03:06:59 +0000 Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6637A10191E; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:04:00 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Parsing emerge Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 12:03:58 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <1109924970.11103.19.camel@secures> <422841C8.10407@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <422841C8.10407@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200503051203.59476.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: 93e91948-9717-4a44-94c6-d483bdc62022 X-Archives-Hash: ac0cf89f2a75cb333b50515870ae8aea On Friday 04 March 2005 20:08, Ian Leitch wrote: > Chris White wrote: > | I'm putting this here for informative purposes as to achieving proper > | parsing of portage for use in extending the already present behaviour to > | better suit one's needs. A few things I'll bring into the table from my > | experience: > > Sorry to spoil your post Chris, but I think this is just another > testimonial to how badly we all need that portage API (plus the portage > daemon for tools such as Porthole who currently also have to parse > emerge output). This is by no means the first attempt at parsing I've seen. I've asked several times before but I may as well ask again. What are the requirements? From my point of view, there is not much point in doing anything without some specific requirements. Take the analogy of a teenage daughter asking her parents for a transportation vehicle. A tractor would fit the bill as would a Boeing 747... Regards, Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list