[gentoo-dev] [ANNOUNCE] eclectic-0.9.1

[Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>]

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About eclectic
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During the last few months, ciaranm, ka0ttic, slarti and me have been
working on "eclectic" [1], a modular administration and configuration
framework for Gentoo. Eclectic is completely written in bash and unifies
different tasks in one tool with a consistent user interfaces. Up to
now, eclectic can handle mulitple tasks using the following modules:

 * bashcomp:
   Configure and list bash completetions, thus obsoletes
   app-shells/bash-completion-config.

 * blas,lapack:
   Switch between implementations of virtual/{blas,lapack}.
   This obsoletes sci-libs/{blas,lapack}-config (which are bogus).

 * profile:
   List and switch Gentoo portage profiles. Check if selected
   profile is valid in regard to used "ARCH".

 * mailer:
   Manage the mailwrapper profiles in /etc/mail.

 * kernel:
   Manage the /usr/src/linux symlink.

Work on further modules is in progress like:

 * vi:
   Manage the upcoming vi symlink for parallel installs of vi clones.
   (vi, nvi, vim, gvim)

 * icu and ilasm:
   Manage the different free implementation of .NET.

Eclectic has a library concept for shared function. It features common
code for configuration, output and multilib handling.

There is a both a developer guide and a user guide as RST shipped with
the source.

Currently, eclectic's source[2] is hosted at berlios.de due to our decission
to use Subversion as SCM. As soon as GLEP 36[3] has been implemented, we
would like to move to a Gentoo repository.

Questions
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 * What do we need to accomplish to get the status of an "Official
   Gentoo Project" ? Is a manager voting necessary ?

 * What do the maintainers of Gentoo's various -config and -update
   scripts think about converting their scripts into eclectic modules ?

 * What is the best place for eclectic in the portage tree? app-admin as
   it is an administrative tool? Or rather app-portage as it should be
   used together with Gentoo only?

Danny

[1] http://developer.berlios.de/projects/eclectic
[2] http://download.berlios.de/eclectic/eclectic-0.9.1.tar.bz2
[3] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/glep/glep-0036.html

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Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>
Gentoo/AMD64 Project, Gentoo Scientific Project
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