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 1E3RVH-0007lS-KI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:50:48 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7C4nB1S004263; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:49:11 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 j7C4nBBp006011 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 04:49:11 GMT Received: (qmail 17610 invoked by uid 210); 12 Aug 2005 06:50:08 +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 0.392651 secs); 12 Aug 2005 04:50:08 -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 06:50:08 +0200 Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:52:05 +0200 From: Christopher Korn To: Alec Warner Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Next major version Message-Id: <20050812065205.2986b73c.chris@chkorn.de> In-Reply-To: <42FBF831.5000201@egr.msu.edu> References: <1123700491.29247.56.camel@localhost> <42FA540E.2080900@egr.msu.edu> <20050811195149.4957adf5.chris@chkorn.de> <42FB96CE.6090906@egr.msu.edu> <20050811233457.5ec9b4d7.chris@chkorn.de> <42FBF831.5000201@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: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 07d64ecf-d031-4185-990c-84cdb9a63e96 X-Archives-Hash: f2a92dcde8ff0b0d9ae681611433d3fe On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:15:29 -0400 Alec Warner wrote: > > 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. > > 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. :) > > > I only ask because otherwise it doesn't get done. There are many > things that would improve gentoo, only the manpower to do them is > required. Besides, we all need to learn python sometime ;) Ok you're right. (With the Python thing too ;)) I can try to write something if anyone is ok with that. But is there real interest at the moment? Finding other guys helping out should not be a problem after the first steps are done. Chris -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list