Re: NewVersion

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Hugo Barrocas <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm not a programmer :)
>
> I just considered that if I'm installing some program, and it fails to
> install because it depend on some other program, that should be
> inserted in the dependencies file.
> I try to check it (whenever I recall), and it I spot that it didn't
> auto-insert it, I enter it manually before uploading the recipe.
>

Yeah, that manual procedure really sucks. A couple of alternatives I see to
improve the generation of Dependencies files are:

(1) to have a tool that parses configure.ac files and guesses which
dependencies are mandatory based on the use of the AC_MSG_ERROR() macro,
and
(2) to borrow meta-data from other distros.

The problem with the first is that configure.ac files can be quite complex
(and often they are). But, in fact, this looks like a nice problem for
programming language folks;  Hisham, Michael, does this sound like
something a summer student of yours would be willing to embrace?

With the second approach, we would need to map package names used by other
distros to the ones used by Gobo. Sounds feasible, but tedious to maintain.

Lucas

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