Hi! On Fri, 2009-04-10 at 09:18:32 +0200, Obey Arthur Liu wrote: > === And the details: === > ======================== > > * Control Files Parsing/Editing Library/Qt4-Debconf Qt4-Perl bindings * > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Student: Jonathan Yu, Mentor: (probably) Dominique Dumont *see below* > > This project proposes a common library for parsing and manipulating > Debian Control files, including control, copyright and changelog. Main > ideas include validating and parsing of these files, with both Strict > and Quirks modes for the parser. The second idea is a new frontend for > Debconf using Qt4 (for which Perl bindings will be written).
I've some comments after checking the more detailed project proposal at: <http://wiki.debian.org/jawnsy/Debian_Control_Files_Parsing_and_Editing_Library> There's already several libraries to parse debian control and changelog files, but I don't think there's anything for copyright as the format is not yet standardized. dpkg has a C library (albeit not yet public) for parsing and dumping control-style files, and dpkg-dev has also perl modules supporting control and changelog files. I'm also aware of apt's implementation in C++, and there's others in python, ruby, etc. There's also mention of rewritting debconf in C/C++, but that has also already been done in the form of cdebconf. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
