DECLARATIVE DIVERSIONS ====================== REPORT 2 --------
This is the second report for declarative diversions for debian as part of Google Summer of Code. My first report was just a design draft but I have since been advised to structure it differently. So in this report I will talk about what I have done to date with the project and what my plans for the immediate future are. For the first while in this project I spent a lot of time with my mentor planning out what we were going to do and we discussed it with everyone who is involved with dpkg to get feedback. I quickly got a great deal of feedback and produced my first design draft. After which I got even more feedback and produced my second design draft. This week is the first week I have spent coding. So far I have coded a parser which works quite well for what we need. I spent the later part of this week integrating it into the existing codebase. But so far everything is looking extremely promising. My plans for the immediate future are to release a third design draft based on feedback from my existing code and to finalise the main part of the work. I believe this will be achieved by the next report date (1st of July) as well as a lot of basic functionality for the project. Anyone who wishes to discuss the project with me can either mail me through the mailing list, catch me on IRC (SCD[Eire]) or email me at [email protected] My blog: http://blog.sam-dunne.com My Github: https://github.com/samdunne/dpkg-diversions My code is located in /lib/dpkg/test in the gsoc-testing branch of my code Until next time, -- Sam Dunne
