Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-26 Thread Tiziano Müller
Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 22:01 +0100 schrieb Sérgio Almeida: Gentoo Dev's, My name is Sérgio Almeida, I am Portuguese and I am a student for this year's Google SoC coding the Universal Select Tool project for Gentoo being Sébastien Fabbro (bicatali) my mentor. Abstract: Universal

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-26 Thread Sérgio Almeida
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 22:04 +0200, Tiziano Müller wrote: Am Montag, den 04.05.2009, 22:01 +0100 schrieb Sérgio Almeida: Gentoo Dev's, My name is Sérgio Almeida, I am Portuguese and I am a student for this year's Google SoC coding the Universal Select Tool project for Gentoo being

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-22 Thread Sérgio Almeida
Michael, Eventually, we should pass something like -Dhostname=superhost as cmdline parameter to uselect... Didn't want to get into that detail. Afterall `hostname` will always return the same regarding the host therefore it can be retrieved from uselect's engine. I don't like to have

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 16:40 +0100, Sérgio Almeida wrote: This .uselect should not contain symlinks, but plain (text?) files only. Do we really need more than one file? No, at least not to define the _values_ of a profile. Checklist: * Hostname * Uname * {$chost} Mmm... Maybe we

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-13 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 21:45 +0100, Sérgio Almeida wrote: How about having the profile switch automatic whenever you call uselect something getting the current profile settings from current dir's .uselect folder? Yeah, this indeed could work! But there is one restriction: This .uselect folder

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-12 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
If there is a different place for requirement discussion of Gentoo specific GSoC projects, please tell, and sorry for bothering here then. On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:01 +0100, Sérgio Almeida wrote: Here are the main interest ideas: * actions can be run system-wide and per-user: # action

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-12 Thread Michael Haubenwallner
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:32 +0100, Sérgio Almeida wrote: On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 22:01 +0100, Sérgio Almeida wrote: Here are the main interest ideas: * actions can be run system-wide and per-user: # action user moo # action system moo Are there any thoughts to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-12 Thread Sérgio Almeida
Michael, Seems you didn't really understand my problem yet - another try: The *one* and *same* user does need different settings at the *same* time depending on the project he's currently working on in different shells. The actual setting needs to be set up by the project's environment

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-10 Thread Mark Loeser
Sérgio Almeida meph...@gmail.com said: Abstract: Universal Select Tool is an utility to manage system configuration. This tool is similar to the unmaintained eselect utility of Gentoo or Exherbo's eclectic. The idea is to create a tool that manages both system settings and user settings

[gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-04 Thread Sérgio Almeida
Gentoo Dev's, My name is Sérgio Almeida, I am Portuguese and I am a student for this year's Google SoC coding the Universal Select Tool project for Gentoo being Sébastien Fabbro (bicatali) my mentor. Abstract: Universal Select Tool is an utility to manage system configuration. This tool is

Re: [gentoo-dev] Google SoC @ Gentoo - Universal Select Tool

2009-05-04 Thread Denis Dupeyron
2009/5/4 Sérgio Almeida meph...@gmail.com: Please drop me a line here or at freenode if you have anything to add All I have to add is thanks a lot. I wished other SoC students would also introduce themselves and their project on their list. Denis.