On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Chris Evich <cevich@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > Hopefully this is the right mailing list :) > > Project rpmbuilder aims to provide a template-based approach to packaging. In > other words, it removes responsibility from developer to produce an RPM spec > file the "right" way. Instead, the package developer just feeds in his > project's particulars, and a template-driven engine puts the pieces together > and spits out a "sane" RPM and SRPM. > > https://fedorahosted.org/rpmbuilder Personally I would rather see Fedora heavily invest in reducing all the overhead that currently exists in packaging and putting more intelligence into the core of the system, rather than generating spec files. Editing spec files is already painful enough; editing generated ones sounds even less fun. Essentially if the build system knows about things like the Ruby gem specs, Python setup.py, Java's Maven, freedesktop.org autotools-based desktop packages, etc., then you don't need to autogenerate a lot of spec boilerplate. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
