Bart Silverstrim wrote:
I'm trying to update a number of packages using Fink Commander, and
have another package burp on me where it seems that re-running the
update might fix it.
An idea occurred to me and I wondered what others out there might
think of it (especially since I'm not a programmer by trade, so please
don't reply with "do it yourself" type answers...). I thought if this
was a good enough idea, maybe someone in the project would be
interested in looking into integrating it.
What if there were a function during the build where if a package
fails, Fink (or Fink Commander, or another utility) could go out and
query by package and package version a central bug repository or
mailing list archive for instances of that package "giving trouble" to
other people? If It were integrated in, it would reduce the number of
"Package XYZ isn't working for me" questions that were just discussed
not even a day ago. While it's easy to bitch that these users don't
search the archive, there are times where I delete messages from the
mailing list without reading them only to have the problems mentioned
before come up a few days later and I admit I've taken the lazy way
sometimes (and other times I have searched through archives and
googled for answers).
This has indeed been discussed and some work has been made in this
direction. The "reportbug" package does indeed send a message to a
centralized database (and to the maintainer)--bugs.finkproject.org
provides web access for the database, but it's not used officially yet.
It would take more effort since there's have to be recoding and a
database set up for the application to query it and organize results,
but it may help with things, no? I know it would be convenient to
come back to a failed build after I thought it should all be done and
have a window popped up with a list of messages sent to the list or to
a bug database with similar problems and possible solutions available...
Just an idea.
-Bart
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