Project Summary
Framework for automated ebuild generators
GSoC 2013 project
g-sorcery is aimed to provide you with easy way of integration of 3rd party software providers with Gentoo.
3rd party software provider is a software distribution like CTAN, CPAN or ELPA. Usualy there is a lot of software available in such a distribution and very few or no ebuilds for it.
g-sorcery is a project aimed to implement a framework for ebuild generators (backends) for 3rd party software providers. The CLI tool g-sorcery is designed to be called rather by appropriate backends then by user. If you are not a backend developer and just want to manage your overlay see documentation for a backend you want to use.
Currently g-sorcery includes number of backends.
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took an estimated 1 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in June, 2013
ending with its most recent commit over 9 years ago
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