Re: AutoPortage

I'm building my own application at the moment (slow progress atm) that has
been accepted for a university proposal for a final year project for
building/installing packages from source (or autopackage or native binary
format) it's not quite in the same vein, but similar it's a graphical
application to subscribing to the application updates you want and you could
quite easily (once complete) use this to achieve a similar outcome, i could
provide more details if you like, and if you feel your project is
sufficiently different to warrent a new project go for it! :)

2008/12/23 Matthew Tedder <[email protected]>

> Has any thought been given to building a system to support maintenance of
> autopackages or is the effort focused on just getting application developers
> to build autopackages, individually?
>
> I am considering building an "AutoPortage" something like BSD ports or
> Gentoo's Portage.  It would be based on a registry of where to download the
> sources for each version of each application along with a script to make and
> package.
>
> This would be a server-side tool for efficient maintenance of
> autopackages.  I am still pondering the details, but need to ask if any
> similar endeavor is already taking place by chance?
>
> Matthew
>