On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:29 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > People, > > I'm working on a new portage browser, and I was looking for ideas from > USERS, that's why I'm > posting here. > > I've never found a program that would allow me to browse portage > categories, then packages, showing > in one window description, version, etc, etc.
Yes! > > Thus, I'm working on one now, but I want to develop something that will > run in console and X, too, > like suse's yast. > > So, I would like to know: > > 1) do you prefer a console, a GUI, or both? GUI primarily, but a console for scripting. > 2) what additional functionality would you like? (mask/unmask packages, > install/remove, emerge > command generator [much like nmapfe], etc) mask/unmask would be nice, but it's not absolutely necessary install/remove is necessary ;-) emerge command generator might be useful in a scripting application > > If you have any idea regarding development (because of the both console > and X-compatible > script/program), please let me know. If not, I may end up writing an API, and > two different programs. Python can handle both scripting and GUI, and of course portage is written (mostly? completely?) in python, so I'd suggest ... python (surprise!). I might consider jython if there is a compelling reason to use Java. --- Vladimir Vladimir G. Ivanovic Palo Alto, CA 94306 +1 650 678 8014 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
