GUI for managing rpm

Axel Thimm Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
Sun Dec 24 12:36:54 UTC 2006


On Sun, Dec 24, 2006 at 01:54:55AM +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> >Jesse Keating wrote:
> >>On Saturday 23 December 2006 13:12, Amit Dey wrote:
> >>>Is there any gui application for maintaining rpm files in fedora core 6.
> >>pirut
> >
> >I think he means "for maintaining spec files". To my knowledge, there are
> >none. I heard of an eclipse plugin at some point, and I know there is an
> >emacs mode, but that's all.
> 
> 
> .specs can be done in XML, the support has been there for a long time - 
> not sure if anyone has ever actually written a spec in XML ( I for one, 
> hate XML and avoid it whenever possible ). But should someone want to, 
> use an XML editor and spec away!

I've often heard about xml specfiles, but have never seen one. Have
you seen any such example on the net? I don't really like how xml
obfuscates the flow of reading something, but I'm interested in seeing
what it looks like.

> Does FE have a policy on XML specs ?
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Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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