Re: 0template feature suggestion: Infer template from feed

I'll give implementing this a shot. Wondering what the command-line
interface should look like.

Perhaps have calling "0template somefeed.xml" for an existing somefeed.xml
cause somefeed.xml.template to be generated in the same directory, allowing
an override with -o?

-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas Leonard [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Samstag, 6. Juni 2015 13:13
To: The Zero Install system
Subject: Re: [Zero-install-devel] 0template feature suggestion: Infer
template from feed

On 2 June 2015 at 19:19, Bastian Eicher <[email protected]> wrote:
> It would be nice if 0template could "infer" a template from an 
> existing feed.
>
> The algorithm could look roughly like this:
> * Copy metadata like <name>, <summary>, <homepage> from the feed to 
> the template unchanged
> * Use <interface uri="..."> in the feed to fill in <feed-for> in the 
> template
> * Find the latest <implementation> in the feed (resolving any <group> 
> nesting along the way) and copy it to the template
>    * Replace the values for version= and released= with {version} and 
> {released} respectively
>    * Search all other attributes (especially <arhive href="...">) for 
> occurrences of the version= and released= values from the feed and 
> also replace them with {version} and {released}
>
> Thoughts?

Sounds useful!


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