[yocto] Design Document of "Yocto 1656 Recipe creation/import script"

[Joshua Lock]

Hi Kai,

On 06/01/12 01:51, Kang Kai wrote:
> This is the design document of "Yocto 1656 Recipe creation/import
> script". Please help to review it.
> Any suggestion is appreciate.

You should check out autospectacle[1] that I linked to in the bug 
report. It does a lot of guessing using clever tricks like searching 
Freshmeat, doap files, READMES etc to get a description[2] and analysing 
configure.ac[3], qmake[4], etc. to determine dependencies.

The autospectacle perl script is reasonably well commented and quite 
readable.

I'm not suggesting we adopt all of the features in it but many of them 
are useful techniques for this effort.

Regards,
Joshua

1. https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/autospectacle/
2. 
https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/autospectacle/blobs/master/autospectacle.pl#line1001
3. 
https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/autospectacle/blobs/master/autospectacle.pl#line633
4. 
https://meego.gitorious.org/meego-developer-tools/autospectacle/blobs/master/autospectacle.pl#line840
-- 
Joshua Lock
         Yocto Project "Johannes factotum"
         Intel Open Source Technology Centre