Hi James, On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 13:18 -0500, James Westby wrote: > A few others and I are working on a tool which we hope will abstract the > packaging part of this. I don't think that the package format should be > necessarily tied to the technologies that will be used to produce the > application. > > https://launchpad.net/pkgme > > The tool is inspired by quickly, stdeb, python-mkdebian and debhelper, > and aims to generate the packaging by looking at the code. > > Once it is up to scratch I would like to propose it to implement the > "package" command of quickly, which could then be shared across > templates. > > It would be easy for someone to extend pkgme to generate an rpm spec > file, or any other packaging format. > > I think this would be particularly attractive to GNOME, as it would mean > that you didn't have to favour a particular distribution for packaging > of the code. > > I haven't talked much about the project yet as I am putting together > some documentation for people who want to write "backends" for it. Once > we have a few of those then we can encourage application authors to make > use of the tool.
That sounds excellent! I've emailed the gnome-devtools list about it [1]. Hopefully, we can get a few people together to work on getting this (or something similar) supported in GNOME development tools like Anjuta. Thanks, Phil [1] - http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-devtools/2010-December/msg00006.html -- Phil Bull https://launchpad.net/~philbull Book - http://nostarch.com/ubuntu4.htm -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
