Re: [gentoo-dev] Suggestion

[Luis Francisco Araujo <araujo@gentoo.org>]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-02-08 at 11:59 +0100, Jose San Leandro wrote:
>> That is enough once you know how to write ebuilds.
>>
>> We were thinking of a GUI to soften the learning curve to non-experts. 
>> Probably not useful for a Gentoo developer, but could provide an easy way to 
>> write ebuilds to project maintainers themselves, not to Gentoo resources.
> 
> I think what everyone means here is that if the default functions don't
> cover it, and an eclass doesn't cover it, then all of the code will have
> to be written by hand, anyway.  No amount of pretty clicky interfaces
> will help this.
> 
> The only thing I would really see as being useful would be a simple help
> system that is aware of all of the functions in ebuilds.  This could be
> possible if there were some standardized way to document functions and
> their uses, so it could be parsed at run-time from the tree itself, but
> currently, I don't see it getting much traction.  Don't get me wrong, I
> see lots of places where work could be done to make things easier, such
> as some way to easily determine dependencies.  I just don't think it is
> possible to write up an IDE until more work is done defining the current
> eclasses and functions into something more static.
> 

It'd be very difficult to replace just 'opening a text editor' by an 
IDE. Though you might probably come up with very cool ideas ; like for 
example, an eclass browser that could search function based on name or 
descriptions of what the developer is looking for; probably with some 
hierarchy view for surfing them.

At the end, i guess a text editor would be the best option; but that 
doesn't mean you can't try new methods/ideas.

Regards,

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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