On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:42 -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 15:27 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote: > > I see that the Edit->Repository menu item is not yet implemented till > > Pirut 1.3.8. I am going to write one for the offline package > > management tool (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DebarshiRay/rum) I am > > making for this year's Summer of Code > > (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/SummerOfCode/2007/DebarshiRay). > > > > Do you already have some plans or suggestions in mind regarding the > > design and/or functionality of Edit->Repository that I can base my > > work on? Otherwise I can create one which will benefit both Pirut and > > my application. > > There's definitely need to flesh out and actually have the menu item in > pirut be useful. There's already some code in various places (repoman > and system-config-repositories in yumex are standalone... I think > there's also some code in revisor). But I'm not all that sold on the UI > with either... > > I think the place to start is with writing up some use cases and then > trying to do some mockups from there before ever writing any code. > > Then the tricky part is likely to be doing the config reading/writing in > a way that's not lossy. repoman actually has a good start on some of > this, but it'd be nice to actually work towards getting that code into > yum itself so that every tool doesn't have to re-invent those bits. that's fine - provided we aren't pulling in the gui portion of repoman. I have no interest in dragging along gtk bits in/around yum. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
