Dear MacPorts community, I submitted a proposal this year for rewriting parts of MacPorts in Python. The eventual goal is to rewrite all of MacPorts in Python to increase modularity and make integration of other APIs with MacPorts easier.
I've attached my proposal. As for some edits that have already been recommended to me for more measurable goals, by each evaluation I would want to have rewritten an X amount of functions or functionality. What I would request from the community is advice on which functions would be the most valuable and useful and how to split them among the evaluation periods. Some recommendations that I have received already include getting information from the webapp to implement functionality that is not yet available and also rewriting functions such as fetch, dependency calculation, livecheck and install. I'm currently working on integrating a small Python script which tells you the latest successful build of a port with the Tcl source as a proof of concept. Thank you very much for your time, Alex Ionkov
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