From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E3Ki5-0001JO-Vt for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:35:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7BLXe8l011737; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:33:40 GMT Received: from darwin.irclog.de (darwin.irclog.de [212.227.38.129]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7BLXerv006558 for ; Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:33:40 GMT Received: (qmail 26443 invoked by uid 210); 12 Aug 2005 00:22:12 +0200 Received: from 84.153.59.239 by darwin (envelope-from , uid 201) with qmail-scanner-1.25st (clamdscan: 0.85.1/1011. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25st. Clear:RC:0(84.153.59.239):SA:0(0.2/5.0):. Processed in 0.822704 secs); 11 Aug 2005 22:22:12 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.2 required=5.0 Received: from p54993bef.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO tesla) (chkorn-send@chkorn.de@84.153.59.239) by darwin.irclog.de with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 12 Aug 2005 00:22:11 +0200 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 23:36:30 +0200 From: Christopher Korn To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Next major version Message-Id: <20050811233630.4efe017e.chris@chkorn.de> In-Reply-To: <42FB96CE.6090906@egr.msu.edu> References: <1123700491.29247.56.camel@localhost> <42FA540E.2080900@egr.msu.edu> <20050811195149.4957adf5.chris@chkorn.de> <42FB96CE.6090906@egr.msu.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.0.0rc (GTK+ 2.6.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA1"; boundary="Signature=_Thu__11_Aug_2005_23_36_30_+0200_TEFYaHZtLFRhhrwH" X-Archives-Salt: 5cbff5d3-a690-441f-b5d9-d4afd7a0f459 X-Archives-Hash: 60dc05aaa97342ee06c66e7f4588995c --Signature=_Thu__11_Aug_2005_23_36_30_+0200_TEFYaHZtLFRhhrwH Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:19:58 -0400 Alec Warner wrote: > I had a wiki that attempted to cover portage-2.0 api documentation as=20 > well as anything written for 2.1 but lost much of the work in a=20 > transition from windows to linux ( I screwed up the SQl backups :) ). > I thought about putting something up on the devwiki but I haven't=20 > proposed anything because no one really likes a wiki for API docs. Yeah. A wiki isn't the best way, but better than nothing. Probably writing a documentation based on the XML Guide format Gentoo is using is a good start. > As for API docs, there are none at present; and there are no plans > for any stable docs, IIRC. >=20 > As for a developer website, what kinds of information are you looking > for? All information I want is on the page [1], but the mentioned API documentation would help other people to find easy access to portage-development.=20 This is the only improvement a "new" portage site needs in my opinion, since writing something like this needs a good knowledge of Python, easily asking someone to volunteer for it isn't good. :) Chris [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml --Signature=_Thu__11_Aug_2005_23_36_30_+0200_TEFYaHZtLFRhhrwH Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC+8Te6SDIAmuMBukRAjohAJwLhQGqNrFoOExcEdw+xHWCuC+FWQCfaW36 IdvW3xnHV/YBq4Z+Iicrf20= =idoh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Thu__11_Aug_2005_23_36_30_+0200_TEFYaHZtLFRhhrwH-- -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list