Im glad to sponsor him as i said. Let's start the discussion period. On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Anders Bergh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! > > I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I talked to Angel Velásquez > (angvp) > on IRC and he said he would be my sponsor. I've used Arch Linux since early > 2006 > and Linux since 2001. I've also been doing some work on Arch Linux PPC, > mainly been trying to keep the packages that I use up to date, but I've > also > been working on tools to make it easier to do so... but I haven't yet > completely figured out the best human-friendly way to see what needs > updating > and rebuilding. > > Currently I maintain packages related to the D programming language in the > AUR, > and recently got permission for Arch Linux to distribute the D compiler. > It's > closed source, however the front-end is open source and there are already > a couple of open source D compilers, however the gcc-based gdc is not very > maintained (doesn't work with gcc versions > 4.1) and the others are quite > early > in development. > > I used to maintain a small binary repository but I don't think a lot of > people > actually used it. But I did get quite a bit of experience with the > repository > tools and how to build packages. After adopting most of the D-related > packages > I no longer needed to host my own. > > I'm also quite interested in the Lua programming language, and I maintain a > few > Lua packages and so far one got adopted by another TU into community. > > I used to be a rabid Debian user but the one thing that annoyed me was how > you > almost had to read a book in order to create your own packages. In Arch > Linux it > was so easy to create them and that's the main reason I use this > distribution. > I really like when things are simple! > > My list of AUR packages: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Anders&SeB=m > > Note that I haven't updated the gdc packages yet, I think they're kind of > tricky > to install since the gcc makefiles aren't really helpful when you want to > install one frontend only. > > About me: I'm Swedish and 17 years old. Most of my interests involve > computers, > such as programming, IRC, games... it's a bit hard to think of all the > things I > do because I often like to try new things. I'm currently focusing quite a > bit on > web dev such as PHP and Django. I'm not much of a web design guy so it's > mostly > the coding part that interests me. > > My native language is Swedish, and I did English in school ever since 1st > grade, > however most of my English is self taught because of all the time I've > spent on IRC > and other places on the Internet. > > I have an Arch 64 installation so building 64-bit packages isn't a problem > for > me. > > Regards, > Anders > -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909 Arch Linux Trusted User
