On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 04:16:57PM +0200, wakeup wrote:
I do realize that it is possible to write those CLI-tools with a lot of shell-hacking and excessive use of various string manipulation tools. You have to see though, that this is a pain for devs! I do not think AUR's web interface represents the Arch way (keeping it simple) good enough, because it makes writing a light client much more difficult than it has to be. Of course one can access the AUR via CLI, but it sure is not the simple way.
Think of the other benefits a client/server model brings with it, like bigger scalability through mirroring (and in general) or the possibility to choose your favorite client.
There isn't any good full featured non web access to AUR. I'd love to see something like that, and eventually I mean to start writing a system from scratch that could replace AUR. There was a project called repoman a while back that was attempting to do something similar I think. Take a look at tupkg and tupkgs in the AUR code. I was thinking that might be useful for writing a new system. Also, this discussion might be more appropriate in aur-dev.