[pacman-dev] abs

[Allan McRae]

On 23/04/13 17:53, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:36 AM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 23/04/13 16:29, Christian Hesse wrote:
>>> Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> on Tue, 2013/04/23 13:45:
>>>> The PKGBUILD proto files could have the prepare() function added just to
>>>> be more complete and fix the remaining bug is someone wants to volunteer
>>>> to do that...
>>>
>>> Speaking about PKGBUILD proto files... The extra package 'abs' installs
>> some
>>> proto files which look way outdated. Is anybody working on that? Patches
>>> welcome?
>>>
>>
>> I have no interest in ABS.
>>
>> @Dave: looks like you did the last release.  Are you going to fix those?
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
> If no-one is interested in updating/maintaining abs, we could always move
> the prototypes currently in to the pacman project.  It would make sense as
> they need to be kept in sync with the changes in makepkg and pacman.
> 
> Eric
> 

I see no point for VCS prototypes now that they are just a source line.

That leaves perl/python/haskell/gnome etc which I count as too distro
specific to be included (and hopefully will disappear with the
templating idea that is floating around).

Allan