Re: GUI tool for packaging
Excerpts from Thomas Kluyver's message of 2012-11-09 05:19:03 -0800:
> This is an idea I've had knocking around for a while. Packaging is complex
> - there are lots of different tools and syntaxes you have to understand to
> do a good job of it - quilt, debhelper, watch files, etc. - along with
> specialist terminology. I know various CLI tools aim to simplify things,
> but not everything can be automated, and the tools end up with lots of
> options to learn about.
>
> The upshot is that most open source developers rely on a relatively small
> number of specialist packagers to do the rather esoteric work of preparing
> Debian packages. To get this to scale, I think we need to encourage more
> upstreams to provide packaging - whether it's for inclusion in Debian, or
> to provide .deb packages themselves, like Google Chrome, MongoDB and
> Dropbox do.
As part of the effort to encourage development of Applications for Ubuntu,
pkgme was created.
The idea was to generate *full packages* based only on the usual metadata
provided to most build systems or language-specific packaging systems.
https://launchpad.net/pkgme
At one point I was interested in writing a ruby backend for this, but
got distracted and moved to other focus, but I think it solves what you
are talking about, without need to develop a large project like a GUI.
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