[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread R Hill
Dan Meltzer wrote: Forever. How about, "as long as relevant"? ;) --de. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Grobian
Jason Stubbs wrote: To be honest, this is the part that I don't like the most. Integrating code into portage to copy files here and there based on some predefined rules and news readers reading and renaming files based on some predefined rules... A filesystem based API just doesn't seem very ro

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread R Hill
Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 21:33 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: Hence emerge --news. Why? There's no "emerge --etc" or "emerge --etc-update" functionality. Why must it be "emerge --news" at all? # emerge --help config probably an emerge --help news that explains the basic

Fwd: Re: Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Thesis on open source

2005-11-12 Thread Hania Sabbidin
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 13 November 2005 00:34, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:39 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:19, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > > When we have emerge --news done, > > > > I keep seeing references to "emerge --news" but at the same time am > > see

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 04:32 -0700, Duncan wrote: > I agree to some extent with both viewpoints, here. I think the viewpoint > of the "portage first" side is that we already have the "traditional" > stuff, the announce and dev list, the GWN, the forums, and "system > changing" announcements general

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 13:39 +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:19, Stuart Herbert wrote: > > When we have emerge --news done, > > I keep seeing references to "emerge --news" but at the same time am seeing > that news readers are external. What exactly is `emerge --news`

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 00:57 +, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:22 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > > It seems to be your own quest to have the news *only* > > delivered by portage. > > I thought I'd been very clear in the email that you've replied to that I > support making

Re: [gentoo-dev] Plugin framework

2005-11-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Saturday 12 November 2005 22:11, Jason Stubbs wrote: > I've had a go at creating a generic plugin framework for portage. The > attached patch contains: Gah! Apologies again. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Plugin framework

2005-11-12 Thread Jason Stubbs
I've had a go at creating a generic plugin framework for portage. The attached patch contains: * plugins/__init__.py that does plugin searching and loading. * plugins/cache/__init__.py which specifies what class cache plugins must derive from. * cache/{anydbm,flat_hash,flat_list,metadata,sqlite

[gentoo-dev] Re: GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Duncan
Grobian posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 12 Nov 2005 09:49:11 +0100: > Stuart Herbert wrote: >> I thought I'd been very clear in the email that you've replied to that I >> support making the news available via other ways. It's the timing that >> I'm a bit worried about. > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmasking dev-python/setuptools 0.6_alpha5?

2005-11-12 Thread Anders Bruun Olsen
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 10:01:33PM -0600, Edward Muller wrote: > Anyone know how safe/unsafe dev-python/setuptools-0.6_alpha5 is? I am > building > an ebuild for Turbogears and a current version of setuptools is required. Just in case you haven't seen it, you should take a look at http://eggs.ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP 42 "Critical News Reporting" Round Two

2005-11-12 Thread Grobian
Stuart Herbert wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:22 -0500, Chris Gianelloni wrote: It seems to be your own quest to have the news *only* delivered by portage. I thought I'd been very clear in the email that you've replied to that I support making the news available via other ways. It's the ti