Re: [Gnewsense-dev] gNewSense 5

[dww]

I will try and see if I can develop something useful. I guess BASH
script would be best or should I try PERL?

Also see, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356326, finally getting
some action on the kdeparser licensing issue.

Dennis




On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 00:14 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> Op Fri, 06 May 2016 20:13:48 -0400
> schreef dww <address@hidden>:
> 
> > Would it be possible to extend the framework whereby the developer can
> > fill out a data file based on a template.  A script would read the
> > file and attempt to create and modify appropriate files needed to
> > update the package and then build it.
> > 
> > I imagine there would be many cases where this would not work
> > completely. So there would still be manual inspection and reworking.
> 
> That would lower the barrier for contributions a lot. I fear that
> upstream packages and our modifications to them are too diverse to make
> this possible, but I welcome you to look at our patches in Ucclia to
> try and find some patterns that would lend themselves to this approach.
> 
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