[arch-general] rubygems, the arch way and the aur

[martin kalcher]

Am 19.05.2012 20:03, schrieb Kwpolska:
> On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 7:26 PM, martin kalcher
> <martin.kalcher at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> My suggestions
>>
>> I wrote a simple python script that creates PKGBUILDs from the rubygems.org
>> API. I wrote it just to figure out if this works, so its pretty straight
>> forward and i dont want to publish it it yet. It worked quite nice - it can
>> resolve dependencies and stuff like that - but there is one problem at the
>> moment. The API does not provide any checksums for the gems, but i opened an
>> feature request [0].
>
>> python script
>
> Are you serious?  A Python script for Ruby gems?!  But seriously, a
> great idea and an even better scripting language choice.
>

Ahaha, i wrote it in Python, because i thought that the AUR is a django 
site.

>>
>> With this script i could imagine two things.
>>
>> Setting up a virtual AUR user, who handles all ruby-* packages. Then we
>> create a rubygems account for this user, so we can create a custom rubygems
>> feed for this user, with the gems we have in the AUR. Once a day a script
>> checks the feed for updated gems and creates new PKGBUILDs, if needed.
>> Pretty awesome! If it is possible to integrate this into the AUR, this would
>> be my favorite solution. But i could imagine, that some of you will yell:
>> 'This not what we consider KISS!'
>
> And others will yell "Patches welcome."  I always wanted to say that, therefore
>
> PATCHES WELCOME.
>
> But seriously, TUs/Developers/what-you-have are too lazy to do it
> themselves, and therefore you must learn PHP (can't call it a
> programming language, nor a scripting one, it's a PIECE OF SHIT),
> write appropriate code (good luck!), create a git-formatted patch and
> post it.  Or find a better way to integrate it into the AUR.
>

Hmm PHP, ok, great..

I figured out that it is not necessary to integrate it directly into the 
AUR. Its possible to upload the packages through the script.