On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:33 AM, C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 1:09 AM, Alexander Duscheleit > <jinks@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:12:46 -0600 >> C Anthony Risinger <anthony@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> wrote: >>> >> * git://ius.student.utwente.nl/aur2 -- Thralas's repository >>> >> * git://git.berlios.de/aur2 -- Djszapi's repository >>> >> * git://github.com/SpeedVin/aur2.git -- SpeedVin's AUR2 forked >>> >> repo with some patches and translation's. >>> > >>> > I'll add "AUR3" to the mix... - >>> > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=99839 >>> >>> i haven't made any release or update to BBS (or README :-) in some >>> time, but a fair amount of work + thought has gone into this. if >>> you'd like, check out the 'pmvc-refactor' branch here: >>> >>> https://github.com/extofme/aur-pyjs/tree/pmvc-refactor >>> >>> it will be the path forward, and is based on the lightweight puremvc >>> framework to add a little sanity. i encourage you to take a look, as >>> the code is remarkably small, fast, free of any HTML/compatibility >>> nuances, but still leverages the full power of the most advanced GUI >>> available... a web browser, an excellent language... python, and a >>> competent widget library based on GWT. it's a fully client side >>> javascript (or python-DOM) application requiring nothing from the >>> server (or a local daemon...) other than JSON-RPC endpoints, which can >>> be implemented in any language. >>> [...] >> >> Just out of curiosity, how will this accommodate links/lynx or >> brltty/espeak/etc. users? > > it would not i suppose -- someone else would need to create a front > end that renders static HTML. the rest of the code and library could > be reused... i don't have much interest in implementing that, but i do > plan to work on a CLI interface once other aspects have been > completed, so that would be an option too. > > the frontends speak with a local JSON-RPC daemon, so really it can be > anything (in fact one of my super secret awesomo goals is to wire a > visualizer to the daemon once it's distributed, and visualize the > Archlinux network). > > i'm about to have a whole lotta time freed up, so i'll finally be able > to work on this again... this project's on my mind everyday and it > annoys me when i can't work on it :-) > > C Anthony > If you guys are willing to work on any part of the code in the aur, there are 3 things that I have always found missing in the aur which I think are essential. FS#15043 - Need better parsing of PKGBUILDs https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15043?project=2 Does this need explaining? It's also pretty annoying. There are tons of examples on the aur where download sources are like http://foo.com/foo-{pkgver:0:5.tar.gz The above example isn't the only thing that is bad at being parsed, check out bug report for full details. FS#16394 - Split Packages in AUR https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16394?project=2 Obviously things like mesa would greatly benefit from this. Also would allow us to remove a lot of redundant packages. FS#21600 - canonical links https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/21600?project=2 Although this isn't a necessity, and should probably get low priority, I think this would be a nice addition. It would make links to the aur human understandable. Well hope you take what I said into some consideration. Cheers!
