[pacman-dev] [abs] Proto files and Makeworld

[Dan McGee]

On Jan 4, 2008 9:11 AM, Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> With ABS splitting off from pacman, I was wondering where makeworld and the
> .proto files belonged.
>
> To me, makeworld seems to be an abs tool (and even mentions ABS in its
> usage) so it would seem to belong in the abs project, not with pacman
> itself.

Done...hope I didn't steal your thunder here. See the current abs.git
repo (I promise I'll try not to touch it anymore! haha).

> The proto files (PKGBUILD.proto, install.proto, and possibly a
> ChangeLog.proto?) seem to belong with makepkg in my mind.  Any changes in
> these proto files would be directly caused by changes to makepkg, and the
> coupling of putting them in with the pacman package seems to make sense.
> I've never understood why we sync them with abs in the first place - if
> someone wants a prototype PKGBUILD to start from, why should they have to
> download the entirety of our repos' build scripts?

And also done. They now live in the top level of the pacman
repository, and they are installed (at least on Arch) to
/usr/share/pacman/.

-Dan