On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:35 PM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 24, 2013, at 15:23, Andre Murbach Maidl wrote: >> I'm a Computer Science student and I'm currently working with >> Lua, so I'm interested to propose a way to integrate rockspecs >> from luarocks to macports. >> >> After my talking to neverpanic on the irc channel, I realized >> that a simple script to generate Portfiles from rockspecs >> wouldn't be enough for GSoC. >> >> Then he told me that maybe an API to deal with 3rd-party >> package managers could be enough for GSoC. >> However, he also told me that there is an open question: >> do we need an API to achieve that, or can it be done >> with what we already have? > > What other package managers are you thinking of? In what way do you want to > integrate them with MacPorts? > > MacPorts already has ports for packages from cpan and pecl, and from the ruby > and python package repositories. Most of these are created manually, though > for cpan there is the cpan2port script that can be used as a starting place.
It would be cool, for instance, if port could call out to a modified cpan (or cpanm, or something else) to have it build a perl module so we would always have every available perl module (I think someone mentioned that fbsd ports does something like that). I think that enabling something like an API for that is what the original poster is talking about. -- Daniel J. Luke +========================================================+ | *---------------- [email protected] ----------------* | | *-------------- http://www.geeklair.net -------------* | +========================================================+ | Opinions expressed are mine and do not necessarily | | reflect the opinions of my employer. | +========================================================+ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-dev
