svn commit: r47982 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status
Benjamin Kaduk <[email protected]>
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Author: bjk
Date: Sat Jan 9 20:26:45 2016
New Revision: 47982
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/47982
Log:
Add entry on porting tools from Brendan Molloy
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2015-10-2015-12.xml Sat Jan 9 20:24:13 2016 (r47981)
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</task>
</help>
</project>
+
+ <project cat='ports'>
+ <title>New tools to enhance the porting experience</title>
+
+ <contact>
+ <person>
+ <name>
+ <given>Brendan</given>
+ <common>Molloy</common>
+ </name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </person>
+ </contact>
+
+ <links>
+ <url href="https://github.com/FreeBSD/pytoport">pytoport: Generate &os; Ports from Python modules on PyPI</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/bbqsrc/bandar">bandar: Create Development Overlays for the Ports tree</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/bbqsrc/skog-python">skog: Generate Visual Dependency Trees for &os; Ports</url>
+ <url href="https://github.com/bbqsrc/spdx-lookup-python">spdx-lookup: SPDX License List Query Tool</url>
+ </links>
+
+ <body>
+ <p>When I starting working on ports for &os; in the last
+ couple of weeks, I found that my workflow was not as efficient as
+ it could be, using just the available tools, so I made a few that
+ could be useful to the development community at large. All of
+ these have been added to the Ports tree, or otherwise will soon be
+ added, so you can play with them today!</p>
+
+ <p><tt>pytoport</tt> is a command-line application that
+ generates a skeleton port for a given PyPI package name. It
+ attempts to generate the correct dependencies, makes a good
+ attempt at guessing the license using <tt>spdx-lookup</tt>, and
+ generates a <tt>pkg-descr</tt>. This made generating the fifteen
+ or so ports I was working on a complete breeze.</p>
+
+ <p>While doing this, however, I noticed that some ports were
+ bringing in dependencies that I did not expect, and I needed some
+ way to visualise this. <tt>skog</tt> builds a dependency tree
+ from the depends lists output by the Ports framework, and displays
+ it on the command line (with extra shiny output if you are using
+ UTF-8). No more pesky example and documentation dependencies
+ being dragged in when you <em>clearly</em> toggled that
+ <tt>OPTION</tt> as far off as it would go.</p>
+
+ <p>While doing all of this, I found it cumbersome to be
+ copying ports back and forth between my small development tree
+ living in git and the larger upstream SVN tree I was using in
+ poudriere. I built a tool called <tt>bandar</tt> that takes
+ advantage of the FUSE version of unionfs to easily overlay my dev
+ tree on the upstream tree, run linting, poudriere and generate
+ archives with ease.</p>
+
+ <p>I'm very impressed with how easy it was to build more
+ tooling for &os;. I hope some of these tools will be of some use
+ to you, and as always, I'd love to hear your feedback!</p>
+ </body>
+
+ <help>
+ <task>
+ <p>Improve skog to support searching a tree for a certain
+ port.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Get the bandar port completed.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Continue to improve pytoport, adding trove support and better
+ depedency handling.</p>
+ </task>
+
+ <task>
+ <p>Patches welcome for all of the above!</p>
+ </task>
+ </help>
+ </project>
</report>
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