Hi Martin, On 15:02 Mon 11 Jan , W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Neil Williams <[email protected]>: > >*Another debootstrap wrapper* ?? Please no. > > I would prefer a more welcoming attitude when someone presents > their new contribution to Debian. But, hey, that's Debian! :~)
I tried to write a short mail and describe the main feature. Of course we don't want to have the same wrapper over and over again. I can understand the answer and hope that the other mail shows that elbe is more than just a debootstrap wrapper. > >There was a session at DebConf15 which identified about 15 existing > >wrappers that do much the same thing already. > > Manuel, Neil, could you try to identify whether or not ELBE has > any "unique selling points" compared to other tools? E.g. to me > the automatic generation of a license file looks interesting and > I did not see elsewhere. At the fist sight ELBE looks more > "complete" to me than the other tools I looked at some years ago. I just tried to figure it out in the other post on this ML. > What I find strange with ELBE is how XML is (ab)used where IMHO > either RFC2822 style would be better (readability, common in > Debian, e.g. debian/control) or Shell/Python. E.g. why > "<rm>/usr/share/doc</rm>" instead of rm -rf or shutil.rmtree()? The idea was to have a syntax with a grammar -> XML. We wanted a single file to describe everything and we didn't want to embedd one format in another. Manuel
