Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-29 Thread Kent Fredric
On 29 June 2012 17:32, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: > > EUSCAN_VERSION=0.71 > > I don't know how difficult that would be for euscan to pickup on, but > since this would have no bearing on actual package behavior, only on > euscan, I'd guess it shouldn't require going thru the formal PMS pro

[gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Duncan
Kent Fredric posted on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:07:58 +1200 as excerpted: > For the most part it seems to get upstream / portage versioning right, > but occasionally you get miss-matches for some reason. > > It would be nice to allow to provide some mapping mechanism that existed > on the overlay itse

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> I'd like to see the information regarding current tree state updated > more regularly than the full upstream scan. Especially when looking at > the herd view, it can be hard to keep track of which bumps have already > been completed. Good idea- it should be much cheaper to do the tree update tha

[gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 2012-06-27 17:51, Federico "fox" Scrinzi wrote: Hi everybody! I'm working on a GSoC project for enhancing Euscan (http://euscan.iksaif.net/). Euscan allows to check if a given package/ebuild has new upstream versions or not. It uses different heuristic to scan upstream and grab new versions a