On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:05:02AM -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 3:43 AM Kent Fredric <kentnl@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 11:35:49 +0000
> > Michael 'veremitz' Everitt <gentoo@veremit.xyz> wrote:
> >
> > > Note:  we're nnot acttually talking about replacing portage here, just
> > > creating a tool ((((thiink php script web tthingy)) that will do some of
> > > the pre-screeninng worrrrk that AT hate (eg.... what kensiington did
> > with
> > > stable-bbot)
> > >
> > > * with apologies for keyboard/remote-access lagggg creating typo hell.
> >
> > But, doing that requires viewing realised copies of ebuilds, which
> > requires interpreting eclasses and variable interpolation, which
> > requires bash sourcing, which requires a mountain of portage hell.
> >
> 
> > Yes, sharing the stable-bot logic would probably be fine.
> >
> > But it doesn't use a database AFAIK, it would likely just be making use
> > of the MD5Cache (either directly, or indirectly via portage APIs)
> >
> > But I won't be volunteering, because I won't touch python.
> >
> 
> You could of course work together with someone else to write the tool?
> 
> -A

Ah, you found the Achilles heel. It is much easier to postulate on the mailing
list, use big words, and then say you just won't do that thing because
tools/languages such.

Perl though...

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Cheers,
Aaron