Hi, After some discussions a few months ago and some more last week, I wrote a quick script during the week-end to be able to wait until a package is updated in a PPA so that I could do automatically trigger tests.
The script is available at https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/3747331 As I note in the link above, this uses two libraries that are not packaged and is therefore not as friendly to install as I had hoped. It's also written in OCaml (which makes sense as I'll reuse everything for my project of an updated excuses page). I expect that at least a few people have taken offense reading the above due to the use of OCaml and will write the same in another language, with more polish! For such a rewrite, you should look at the fetch function: it's mostly API calls to curl in order to avoid re-downloading the Packages.gz file when it hasn't changed (on a PPA with only three packages, HTTP time is cut from 150ms to 70ms IIRC; expect the 150ms to become a lot more on a larger archive, and to also be heavier for servers). Are you still wondering if you should rewrite in your preferred and superior programming language? It's just another proof that it's actually inferior to OCaml since for the past 20 years or more, there haven't been an implementation of this frequent task in that language, and there still isn't. PS: I'm available to discuss implementation details more. PPS: this email is meant to fit in the ideas of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Law and https://xkcd.com/386/ -- Adrien -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
