Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-29 Thread Kent Fredric
On 29 June 2012 17:32, Duncan 1i5t5.dun...@cox.net wrote: EUSCAN_VERSION=0.71 I don't know how difficult that would be for euscan to pickup on, but since this would have no bearing on actual package behavior, only on euscan, I'd guess it shouldn't require going thru the formal PMS process,

[gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 2012-06-27 17:51, Federico fox Scrinzi wrote: Hi everybody! I'm working on a GSoC project for enhancing Euscan (http://euscan.iksaif.net/). Euscan allows to check if a given package/ebuild has new upstream versions or not. It uses different heuristic to scan upstream and grab new versions

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
I'd like to see the information regarding current tree state updated more regularly than the full upstream scan. Especially when looking at the herd view, it can be hard to keep track of which bumps have already been completed. Good idea- it should be much cheaper to do the tree update than

[gentoo-dev] Re: euscan GSoC project - requesting feedback

2012-06-28 Thread Duncan
Kent Fredric posted on Fri, 29 Jun 2012 14:07:58 +1200 as excerpted: For the most part it seems to get upstream / portage versioning right, but occasionally you get miss-matches for some reason. It would be nice to allow to provide some mapping mechanism that existed on the overlay itself