Sebastian Pipping wrote: > Hello! > > > app-portage/mirrorselect is a single file Python program. > It contains a class MirrorParser that parses mirrors.xml from the Gentoo > website. I would like to use that code (unmodified) for my GSoC > project. > > My request is to extract an extra file for that class from > mirrorselect so the Gentoo part of smolt can depend on mirrorselect > in the near future instead of shipping a "dependency fork" forever. > > mirrorselect's author seems to be Colin Kingsley (ter...@g.o.) whom > I cannot find in the list of current gentoo devs. > > Please let me know if you can help/guide/.. with this. > > > > Sebastian
It's only about 30 lines of code, so I wouldn't worry too much about this "dependency fork" thing. Maybe if it was larger then I would. So, I suggest that you simply copy it and include a comment about its origin. -- Thanks, Zac
