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Storing Package Metadata
GiftWrap should save all the data relevant to a package so that the package can be built multiple times without making the user waste time re-entering data. The file should probably be in XML -
New design
What does this do: packages a giftwrap plugin as a.deb. What this does: installs a.desktop& moves a bunch of files around. -
Making packages
There are two ways to make a package - using debhelper or cdbs. A quick overview is available at the ubuntu packaging guide. Structure of a debian package is the program sources+ a debian/ folder with -
GiftWrap Wiki
Welcome to GiftWrap Wiki The wiki about Giftwrap that anyone can edit To write a new article, just enter the article title in the box below. -
Roadmap
Storing Package Metadata Dependency calculation ideas are welcome here. -
Interface mockups
This is an interface mockup for Giftwrap 0.2.0. I read in the wiki that a build queue might be useful, so I thought of a way to manage that graphically: -
Vala-evaluation
Vala (http://live.gnome.org/Vala) - "Vala is a new programming language that aims to bring modern programming language features to GNOME developers without imposing any additional runtime requirements and without using a different ABI -
Coding style
/* filename.vala** Copyright (C) 20yy-20yy Copyright Holder email@address** License text.** Author:* Programmer Name programmer@email*/ Leave space between function/class declarations/calls and the parentheses public void hello () hello (); -
Personas
Various personas that GiftWrap is targetted at. Note about age ranges - we can expect them to be quite wide for any of the following.This is open-source, after all. Bob the developer[] experienced programmer -
Launchpad integration
GiftWrap should have Launchpad integration such that Requires a Python coder, see'Archive' section of the following: https://launchpad.net/+apidoc/ for documentation. -
Dependency detection
Each buildtool (scons, autotools, waf,...) has its own dependecy checking, we could run that and scan the output to see what is missing. This should be in my opinion the first method that is being -
Coding giftwrap
Things to keep in mind while working on GiftWrap& its plugins: using the throws for functions that continue short time and signals for functions that may continue long time -
Debian copyright
Need to decide how to handle copyrighht file generation. Here's how debian/copyright, the packages license file (there is no meta field for this, it's a file) works: -
Core methods
Requires gconf[] retrieve users name - see http://giftwrap.wikia.com/wiki/Name_email_retrieval on how it should be done, same for email, same saving name/ email, getting a list of all projects saved, easy -
Uploading to ppa
The plugin will need to use dput on the given.changes while and a PPA. The interface will take care of only allowing it to be called when we actually prepared the package. -
Name email retrieval
To automatically fill in the packagers name and email, we should take the following order of steps until a result is reached: check if we saved it from the last time, check if$DEBEMAIL/$DEBFULLNAME are -
Project overview
IRC& live contact: giftwrap on conference.jabber.org (jabber, not irc). Web client available here. Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~giftwrap (to be setup) -
Development status
This page will be kept updated with the latest thing a contributor to GiftWrap would be interested in. Next series in development is 0.2x: https://launchpad.net/giftwrap/0.2x -
Making a new release
Update: gnomefiles.org, freshmeat -
FixBuggySeahorseConfig
At some point in time, Seahorse was making a buggy gpg.conf file which made debuild not use it but ask for the pgp password from the user. As discussed on#ubuntu-motu, it's
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