[aur-dev] AUR2

[Dave]

On 10/19/2009 07:02 PM, Laszlo Papp wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 12:11 AM, Callan Barrett<wizzomafizzo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>    
>> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:52 AM, Laszlo Papp<djszapi at archlinux.us>  wrote:
>>      
>>> I think AUR2 would be just a temporary solution for our final purposes. I
>>> started to plan/design quite a few weeks ago the new AUR generation with
>>> Louipc, and we think of an absolutely new implementation/idea. We would
>>>        
>> like
>>      
>>> for AUR to be a command-line based application like pacman. Well, I'd
>>>        
>> like
>>      
>>> to see a more robust, and efficient impelementation of it, not a web
>>>        
>> based
>>      
>>> application.
>>>
>>> We started to redesign PKGINFO related things:
>>> http://louipc.mine.nu/arch/Step-1-PKGINFO-in-srctargz
>>>
>>> You can see here the state of it here:
>>>
>>>        
>> http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=aurman;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/master
>>      
>>> Here is the mailing list:
>>> https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/aurman-dev
>>>
>>> Best Regards,
>>> Laszlo Papp
>>>
>>>        
>> I don't think I follow. Is this a client to the current AUR or some
>> sort of server for clients?
>>
>> --
>> Callan Barrett
>>
>>      
> It will be a client at this momment for current AUR, but we plan to
> implement a full backend,api,front for the AUR and package management. It's
> not a small work for me/us, so be patient, but as I guess the AUR web
> application/server/backend can be changed for a command line tool, because I
> like it as I like AUR installer, vim and other command line application.
>   I tried/try to be close to the pacman source codebase, if someone would
> like to contribute and know the source of pacman, he/she can do it easier,
> but I'm not a good programmer like Xavier and Dan now :P
>
> Btw, any opinion/suggestion would be nice or this:
> http://louipc.mine.nu/arch/Step-1-PKGINFO-in-srctargz
>
> Best Regards,
> Laszlo Papp
>    
I think this is a great thing and once we're able to build this backend 
and api, I would love to see another webapp be put up. I would 
definitely enjoy being able to use the command-line and a webapp to 
manage AUR packages (both as a user and maintainer). I'm not too 
familiar with the pacman code, but I'll help out where I can. I've also 
joined the aurman mailing list. I saw the aurman stub in the Wiki. 
Perhaps we should point to that from the AUR2 page? I can maintain the 
Wiki if need be.