Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-11 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Mojca Miklavec: > I would not dismiss the initial effort as a GSOC project as long as > the student can prove the competence to do some good work and > reasonable potential to stick with the project afterwards. The way I understand GSoC projects is that smaller, self-contained work is

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
Hi, On Thu, 2 Apr 2020 at 20:37, Joshua Root wrote: > > I would say it's OK for a GSoC project to be completely original and > never discussed before; the problem with this one is just the scope. You > would need to spend the entire summer (if not more) just doing design in > order to do it

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-02 Thread Joshua Root
On 2020-4-3 04:52 , Jackson Isaac wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > Thanks for your valuable insights and I really appreciate the detailed > feedback. I didn't realize these things before and the efforts that > went into creating and maintaining such a great project. > > I sincerely apologize to the

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-02 Thread Jackson Isaac
Hi Ryan, On Thu, Apr 2, 2020 at 3:44 AM Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Apr 1, 2020, at 18:20, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > > On Mar 31, 2020, at 16:14, Alex Ionkov wrote: > > > >> I submitted a proposal this year for rewriting parts of MacPorts in > >> Python. The eventual goal is to rewrite all of

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-02 Thread Ralph Seichter
* Ryan Schmidt: > [...] I would have hoped that GSoC would be used as an opportunity for > us to finally implement changes that we have wanted to do for years > but never got around to doing, rather than to propose new projects > whose ramifications have never been discussed before. Quite so.

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Apr 1, 2020, at 18:20, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > On Mar 31, 2020, at 16:14, Alex Ionkov wrote: > >> 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

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-04-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Mar 31, 2020, at 16:14, Alex Ionkov wrote: > 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. Is this an idea you just

Re: GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-03-31 Thread Ruben Di Battista
I have no experience to gave you any valuable help on this Alex, just wanted to drop some ideas I have in mind.  I work in the frame of HPC computing and I’m a heavy user of spack (https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/). It’s a package manager tailored for HPC that shares more than few

GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

2020-03-31 Thread Alex Ionkov
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