[aur-dev] Safe and relatively reliable PKGBUILD parser.

[Laszlo Papp]

On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Xyne <xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There was no response on the pacman-dev list but someone here might
> find this potentially useful:
>
> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-January/010322.html
>
> It's written in Perl but it could easily be adapted to Python. It
> handles Bash variable interpolation and string substitutions so far.
> I'll add support for other PKGBUILD "tricks"as I come across them, e.g.
> setting dependencies by architecture. The post linked above includes
> simplified JSON output from the split kernel26 package.
>
> Regards,
> Xyne
>

What was the problem with that from Sebastian which was discussed
earlier on the mailing lists, IRCs ? How does it know more ?

Best Regards,
Laszlo Papp