Hi, The following project was submitted to Savannah. It needs evaluation to become a GNU package, can you give it a look, please ?
Submitter: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Project Full Name: GNU source installer Project System Name: srcinst License: gpl Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7641 Description: This software is a Source Installer. It has been already implemented and works now. It provides a simple GUI, which can be used to open a source package in various formats (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .shar, .shar.gz, ..) and perform configuration, compilation, installation, removal and package tracking. A package can be present in the system in these forms: 1) installed (binaries and stuff in their place) 2) configured source (ready for future installation, for example) 3) installed+configured source During uninstall, the program performs a crosscheck between make uninstall results and its own tracking of installed files, and prompts the user if something has been left by make uninstall. It works best with software prepared for distribution with the autotools. It reads both the configure script and configure --help output to detect autoconf generated scripts and to detect supported options and env variables It also works when configure script is custom or absent, but what is really necessary is a Makefile. Without a makefile, this stuff does not work. It detects autogen scripts and tries to build the configure script using that, if ./configure is not available directly. This program does not hide operations. Instead, a pseudo-console is available, which prompts all the commands it executes with comments, and also all errors, warnings, etc from ./configure are reported. Please tell me if it looks like a good idea, and if I can make this an official GNU project. I am ready to assign copyright to the FSF. Currently it's copyrighted by me under GPL "v2 or later" license. Current implementation is based on expectk, but I intend to work on other versions. -- the Savannah admin _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.nongnu.org/ _______________________________________________ Savannah-help-public mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/savannah-hackers
