Colin Walters <walters <at> redhat.com> writes:
I actually started translating some spec files into a new build
system
to solve other problems that Fedora has like rampant copy+paste of
scriptlets, etc. You can see some examples of my thoughts here:
A simple one:
http://cdn.verbum.org/hotwire.py
A lot more complex:
http://cdn.verbum.org/hal.py
So you're suggesting that in addition to knowing RPM's specfile syntax,
packagers now have to know Python too? That's going to eliminate all the
non-programmer packagers and also be a PITA for those of us who don't primarily
program in Python.
Kevin Kofler