Universal packaging tool (for pypi, cpan, ruby, ...)

[Artur Szostak]

Dear Mojca,

My use case is far more ambitious. Thanks for the feedback though.

Kind regards.

Artur
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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca at macports.org>
Sent: 13 February 2019 09:38:35
To: Artur Szostak
Cc: Cyril Roelandt; MacPorts Development
Subject: Re: Universal packaging tool (for pypi, cpan, ruby, ...)

Dear Artur,

On Wed, 13 Feb 2019 at 09:18, Artur Szostak wrote:
>
> What is the current practical reality of tools like upt? i.e. how well do they behave on real packages. For example, if I take all the .src.rpm packages in say the Fedora repository, and attempt to convert them to MacPorts packages, what percentage of the converted packages will actually work out of the box?
> I do not necessarily expect every package to work, some are too system specific for that. However, my previous tinkering with such conversion tools showed that the number is close to 0%. The problem was that they only really work for simple packages with basically no dependencies. How does upt improve this situation?

This is not the tool to convert Fedora packages to MacPorts packages,
but to convert PyPi, CPAN, Ruby Gems, NPM, ... packages to *either*
MacPorts or Fedora.

I use cpan2port and pypi2port "all the time", or at least any time
when I need to create a package from CPAN or PyPi. I would say that
some 30% of the time these packages need some manual editing
afterwards, but 100% of the time I get some useful starting point.

The only thing I currently miss in UPT is some super easy way to
update packages (which already went through some manual post-editing
after the inital generation). In particular, I would want the tool to
notify me about new or removed dependencies, for example, but other
things as well.

Mojca