1 About🔗ℹ

1.1 Project Aim🔗ℹ

Racket-Ebuild is primarily made with collector2 in mind.

This package is meant to help Gentoo (and it’s forks) developers in creating and maintaining ebuilds.

1.2 Development🔗ℹ

1.2.1 Tools🔗ℹ

• Gentoo GNU+Linux system (for testing generated ebuilds) with following tools:

  • repoman — for verifying ebuild QA correctness

  • ebuild-mode — if using GNU Emacs for viewing or manually editing ebuilds

• IDE/editor with editorconfig support (or just follow rules in ".editorconfig" file)

• DrRacket for formatting Scribble code (and writing Racket code in general if it is your editor of choice)

• Web browser for reading documentation (generated from Scribble code)

1.2.2 Weirdness🔗ℹ

• Besides non-lisp style and sometimes weird indentation...

• "ebuild" and "metadata" are implemented as classes

• This is one repository that has many packages (so-called monorepo)

1.3 Upstream🔗ℹ

The upstream repository can be found on GitLab.

GitLab allows to run CI pipelines and to generate static web pages for documentation.

Configuration for GitLab CI/CD pipelines can be found in .gitlab-ci.yml.

1.4 License🔗ℹ

Racket-Ebuild is released under GNU GPL, version 3 (only) license.

Read the license text here.