Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > * Package name : goodbye > Git : git://gitorious.org/pkg-goodbye/goodbye.git > * License : GPL > Programming Lang: C
Looking at the source, I believe that the programming language is not C, but perl. Even though there's more C in the packaging, the program's language is perl. > Using slow, bloated tools like debhelper and dpkg-dev will cost you precious > SECONDS when building your package. Multiplied by tens of thousands of > packages Debian has, this can be a burden on archive rebuilds. Thus, this > is a proposal and example how to get rid of that inefficiency. > > Written in a Real Man(tm)'s scripting language with a JIT compiler, it's > over two orders of magnitude faster than mainstream packaging techniques. While the effort is applaudable, I do not think it goes far enough: packaging is serious business, complicated, time consuming, and takes a lot of effort to keep a package well maintained. As such, I believe it would be a good example to include the Design Documents in the package aswell, as surely a lot of effort were put into coming up with these best parctices, showcased under debian/. Also, I would be interested in seeing either an object-oriented packaging, or a functional rules file. But that might be out of scope for this package, so... perhaps a goodbye-for-real example could be made? I'm willing to lend a hand in porting your excellent example from a language invented in the 1970s to one invented in this century: clojure. -- |8] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bowcukev....@bombadil.mhp
