From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QnFWo-0002qD-8N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:48:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E58A21C06D; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:48:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C1021C06D for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 19:48:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyh22 with SMTP id 22so626328wyh.40 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:48:43 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.227.13.135 with SMTP id c7mr4176007wba.111.1312055321151; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:48:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.227.128.133 with HTTP; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 12:48:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [187.127.122.246] In-Reply-To: References: <20110730133053.GA2898@comet> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 16:48:41 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-soc] Distfile patching support - Weekly report #9 From: Rafael Martins To: gentoo-soc@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4aecbd3fa7cea73a64d84417af4c135f On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Rafael Martins wrote: > On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Donnie Berkholz = wrote: >> On 18:09 Fri 29 Jul =C2=A0 =C2=A0 , Rafael Martins wrote: >>> I'm also writing a helper tool, called distpatchq, inspired by >>> portageq, that will provide info about the deltas and distfiles to the >>> package managers willing to implement distfile patching support. >> >> Wouldn't package managers prefer an API rather than a helper tool? >> > > Yes. Actually the Python API of the tools is usable by package > managers, but this won't work for paludis, I guess. I'm just > implementing Portage support for now, though. > > On the other hand, I want to be able to change the internal API, if > needed. In this case, I need a helper tool or a stable public API will > be required. I picked the first to make the things easy for all the > package managers. > > Best regards, > > -- > Rafael Goncalves Martins > http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/ > s/will be required// --=20 Rafael Goncalves Martins http://rafaelmartins.eng.br/