Help needed porting Quod Libet plugins

Adrian Penisoara ady at freebsd.ady.ro
Tue Aug 5 10:57:32 UTC 2008


Hi,

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Christopher Hall
<christopherhall.hsw at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The plugins are single-file Python scripts, which you simply drop into
>> /usr/local/share/quodlibet/plugins/ and then enable in Quod Libet. In
>> order to download them, you must pull them from Quod Libet's trunk in
>> Subversion. This doesn't sound like a good idea to me, because there's
>> no way to guarantee that a given plugin will remain stable all the
>> time. If I ported a plugin, is it advisable to pull the distfile from
>> trunk?
>
> What about pulling a particular Subversion revision that is the way I did it
> I had a do-fetch target that fetched the subversion revision to a
> subdirectory
> in /usr/ports/distfiles then used tar to make a file-rev.tar.bz2. Then just
> carry on as normal.  I do not want to clutter the list with this Makefile
> I could send to directly if you think it might help.
>

What about overriding the fetch and extract targets altogether with
the above steps (e.g. the "fetch" target to do a "svn co" and the
"extract" target just to place the proper files under $WRKSRC) ?

Regards,
Adrian.


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