On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 7:26 PM, martin kalcher <martin.kalcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [snip] > > My suggestions > > I wrote a simple python script that creates PKGBUILDs from the rubygems.org > API. I wrote it just to figure out if this works, so its pretty straight > forward and i dont want to publish it it yet. It worked quite nice - it can > resolve dependencies and stuff like that - but there is one problem at the > moment. The API does not provide any checksums for the gems, but i opened an > feature request [0]. > python script Are you serious? A Python script for Ruby gems?! But seriously, a great idea and an even better scripting language choice. > > With this script i could imagine two things. > > Setting up a virtual AUR user, who handles all ruby-* packages. Then we > create a rubygems account for this user, so we can create a custom rubygems > feed for this user, with the gems we have in the AUR. Once a day a script > checks the feed for updated gems and creates new PKGBUILDs, if needed. > Pretty awesome! If it is possible to integrate this into the AUR, this would > be my favorite solution. But i could imagine, that some of you will yell: > 'This not what we consider KISS!' And others will yell "Patches welcome." I always wanted to say that, therefore PATCHES WELCOME. But seriously, TUs/Developers/what-you-have are too lazy to do it themselves, and therefore you must learn PHP (can't call it a programming language, nor a scripting one, it's a PIECE OF SHIT), write appropriate code (good luck!), create a git-formatted patch and post it. Or find a better way to integrate it into the AUR. -- Kwpolska <http://kwpolska.tk> stop html mail | always bottom-post www.asciiribbon.org | www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html GPG KEY: 5EAAEA16 | Arch Linux x86_64, zsh, mutt, vim. # vim:set textwidth=70:
