Re: [Fink-devel] refactoring and documenting the Perl Fink:: classes and fink tool

2002-12-01 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 12:05 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: 1) is anyone already planning this? Not that I'm aware of... It would be nice to abstract the package management side of things away from the fink tool, definitely. It would be very helpful if anybody, say, wanted to write a

Re: [Fink-devel] refactoring and documenting the Perl Fink:: classes and fink tool

2002-12-01 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 11:23 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Ben Er, we already do have a fink cleanup command. :) No we don't: Common commmands: [snip list without cleanup] This is from fink --help. If it's not there, it DOESN'T EXIST. Hmm, look at the header for that

Re: [Fink-devel] refactoring and documenting the Perl Fink:: classes and fink tool

2002-12-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Peter == Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Hmm, look at the header for that list Common commands, it does not Peter say every command, there is no need to shout at the entire list. And where do you find any other documentation then? man fink = no indication of clean either. Are

[Fink-devel] refactoring and documenting the Perl Fink:: classes and fink tool

2002-11-30 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Last week, I tried to write a quick utility that would preen the cruft from my /sw/src directory. You know, those distros that are no longer needed. I thought no problem... a simple Perl script accessing the Fink::* classes will suffice. I was wrong. After about a dozen false starts, I still

Re: [Fink-devel] refactoring and documenting the Perl Fink:: classes and fink tool

2002-11-30 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: 1) is anyone already planning this? Not that I'm aware of... 2) does anyone else share my pain? Oh dear god yes! 3) if I take this on, who of you might want to help me? I'd be interested in helpping. I don't know

Re: [Fink-devel] refactoring and documenting the Perl Fink:: classes and fink tool

2002-11-30 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 03:36 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Last week, I tried to write a quick utility that would preen the cruft from my /sw/src directory. You know, those distros that are no longer needed. I thought no problem... a simple Perl script accessing the Fink::*