Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Next major version

[Kristian Benoit <kbenoit@opersys.com>]

On Thu, 2005-08-11 at 14:19 -0400, Alec Warner wrote:
> Christopher Korn wrote:
> 
> >>>Hi Jason and other folks,
> >>>I saw your last comment on
> >>>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73350 about most the these
> >>>feature to be present in the next major version. That is really
> >>>great to read.
> >>>
> >>>On that subject, I'd like to have an idea about when we should
> >>>expect that next version.
> >>>
> >>>That said, I think it would be helpful to have a portage developper
> >>>site. Perhaps there is and I dont know...
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>   That would require someone writing one, so if you are
> >>volunteering ;)
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >
> >Writing is not the problem. But without (proper) information it is hard
> >to write a documentation or something like this. 
> >
> >
> >Chris
> >  
> >
> I had a wiki that attempted to cover portage-2.0 api documentation as 
> well as anything written for 2.1 but lost much of the work in a 
> transition from windows to linux ( I screwed up the SQl backups :) ).
> I thought about putting something up on the devwiki but I haven't 
> proposed anything because no one really likes a wiki for API docs.
> 
> As for API docs, there are none at present; and there are no plans for 
> any stable docs, IIRC.
> 
> As for a developer website, what kinds of information are you looking for?

Like you talked about, doc would be nice, Jason has some doc, api doc...
here:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~jstubbs/
but it does not look and is not official.

I remember, when I started using Gentoo, reading that portage is a stand
alone tool, it is not bind into Gentoo in anyway, someone could use it
on redhat, debian, lfs...

Back then I was using lfs so I thought portage could be the way to go on
lfs, but I realized that Gentoo fit my needs and I did'nt have to
compile everything by hand anymore and still have everything compiled by
my machines :) OH JOY !!!

But 5 years or so later, the only official place to get portage releases
is still in the gentoo mirrors. There is no RSS feed or anything like
that. I still believe that portage has the potential to be so powerful
that redhat, debian, ... could be building their packages using portage,
managing their own tree, having night build.

The problem is see, is that the initial portage vision (or perhaps my
initial vision, a vision I still have) has not been carried along with
it's developpement.

Having an official web site, doc, ... will help getting visibility and
effort from the rest of the world thus we'll have better tools and
eventually extend portage beyond Gentoo.

Kristian

-- 
gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list