Re: [pure-lang-users] Debian (and Gentoo?) distribution

[David B. <dh...@gm...>]

On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Albert Graef <Dr....@t-...> wrote:
> Albert Graef wrote:
>> David Baird wrote:
>>> It doesn't seem that anyone has yet taken up an effort to get Pure or
>>> Q into the official Debian package lists.  So, unless someone else has
>>> a special interest, I was thinking of volunteering to be a package
>>> maintainer and seek out a sponsor [1] to get the packages into Debian
>>> (and hopefully propagate into Ubuntu too...?).
>>
>> That would be much appreciated! (You'd probably need to get the LLVM
>> debs updated, too, IIRC they're quite old.)
>
> Did anything come out of this so far? Sorry to be so insistent, but now
> that with Pure 0.5 a reasonably bug-free and complete implementation is
> out, it would *really* be nice if someone would tackle the Debian
> packages. If David cannot do it, is there someone else here proficient
> enough with the Debian packaging system to pull it off? I cannot do it
> myself, since I don't run Debian.

I am still planning to work on it, but if someone else wants to take
it up, then that would be great too.  No problem about being
insistent.  Coaxing usually does for good to me than bad.

My current status is that I have got a Debian chroot up and running (I
need a chroot since I usually am running on Ubuntu and sometimes
Gentoo).  I think the next step (that I haven't done yet) is to start
mapping out the dependences, writing the Debian control files, and get
the build process figured out.  Then the next step after that is to
find a sponsor within Debian who will incorporate the package into
Debian.

I'm also not yet certain if I will run into complexities with LLVM
(like, having to create a custom package for LLVM just to be
compatible with Pure).  Hopefully not *crosses fingers*.

-David