On 2009-06-25 01:27:40 +0200, Andreas Marschke wrote:
I've been working now for several weeks with a developer that is creating a really interesting program for the desktop that could be used in the future for plugins (amarok , KDEVELOP) and plasmoids.
The application is Aki. Its an IRC Client that ships a library for a lot of use cases in other programs and even a plasmoid. I've decided to start packagin this Applicaton for opensuse and also created a project on my build service home directory already. The only thing that keeps me from a first time packaging it is the spec file.
I've experimented with packages before on debian and found it a nice opportunity to start packaging for opensuse. I really don't havve much of an Idea what I have to put all into these specfiles and how to do that right so that the buildservice can package it for other Distros too.
But I would like to tell you a little more about the application/library first. In its very yet basic way it is a good IRC client and by time could be even a replcement for konversation also the underlying api is well written and could be extensified so that even programs such as amarok or KDevlop can have a use of it.
The Idea behind that is really simple. For example you like the musicplayer amarok and music in generall is a great hobby for you. So why not use the akiirc library for writing a little plugin that enables an IRC client in amarok. This way you could enjoy your daily dose of music and your favourite musicplayer right away. The usecase for KDevelop , I think , is even greater as you could implement the Irc client as another tab or something like this and work on a codebase that is provided by one user(being the host) or a group work that could be easiely edited this way in the group so that everybody has something from this virtual developersprint. This could even be a nice thing as it can be used as a collaborative way of debugging and increase this way the development speed of projects and bring the alltogether group closer together.
So now to provide these things I would like you to help me maintain and build these packages. I will probably just need a first start example as I cant find a really good intro to this.
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