Possible package...

Ben Boeckel MathStuf at gmail.com
Fri Sep 11 22:42:55 UTC 2009


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Nathanael D. Noblet wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>    I've been looking at becoming a packager. I've yet to find 
software I 
> need that isn't in fedora yet. I just found one I think.
> 
> http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
> 
> It is based off of qt4 and webkit. Small source files, cmake 
build 
> system. I can't find it in the repos anywhere. Would this be a 
good 
> first package? I'll be using this for a couple of projects to 
convert 
> html to pdf with much less hassle than ever before.
> 
> Thoughts?

Looking through the code, it looks like the #ifndef stuff for 
things called "extensive hacks" could cause some issues, but 
that's a cursory glance at it. I'm also not sure what to make of 
the patches for Qt in its repository. If they're serious 
patches, they should clone Qt on Gitorious and create merge 
requests. Fedora's Qt probably won't ship with them without some 
oversight that they aren't breaking things.

Overall, it looks simple for a first package (though it's using 
qmake, not CMake). I haven't packaged anything that uses qmake 
myself, but more complex projects can quickly get too hard to 
deal with in qmake.

If you're looking for other software to package, there is a 
wishlist on the wiki[1].

- --Ben

[1]https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_maintainers_wishlist
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