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["Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott" <pj+proteanos-ml АТ pehjota DОТ net>]

On 2014-08-28 12:15, Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott wrote:
[...]
> I've recently resumed development of prokit, and I released version
> 0.1.0 two days ago [1].  This version approximately matches miniprokit
> in user-facing features and is intended as a preview release for
> testing.  Additional preview releases will follow soon.

I've forgone the preview releases and just released version 1.0.0 [1] of
prokit [2].  The ProteanOS Development Kit is now considered stable and
sufficiently feature-complete for general use.  prokit is now
recommended over miniprokit for ProteanOS development.

I also wrote a tutorial for setting up a ProteanOS development system
using prokit and moved, updated, fixed, and improved the old packaging
tutorial.  These tutorials can be found on the new package development
tutorials index page [3].

Manual pages for prokit [2] and opkhelper [4] are also on the wiki now.

[1]: http://lists.proteanos.com/proteanos-dev/2014/09/msg00000.html
[2]: http://www.proteanos.com/dev/prokit/
[3]: http://www.proteanos.com/doc/pkg/
[4]: http://www.proteanos.com/dev/opkhelper/

> And finally, cryptography packages need to be prepared so that opkg can
> be configured to verify the signed feed index files.  I've left these
> packages as somewhat low-hanging fruit for anyone interested in getting
> started with contributing to ProteanOS.  See the thread from June [3]
> for more details.  Of course I'll be happy to help anyone who'd like to
> work on any of these (or any other) packages.
>
> [3]: http://lists.proteanos.com/proteanos-dev/2014/06/msg00001.html

Is anyone interested in preparing the remaining cryptography packages?
The cryptography libraries are libgcrypt.11, libassuan, and libksba; all
of these should be very similar in packaging to libgpg-error [5].
libgpg-error's source.mk file can be copied as-is into those packages to
securely fetch the upstream source archives.  These packages should
therefore be fairly easy for new maintainers to prepare.

[5]: http://git.proteanos.com/pkg/libgpg-error.git/

Happy hacking,
--
Patrick "P. J." McDermott
  http://www.pehjota.net/
Lead Developer, ProteanOS
  http://www.proteanos.com/