I’ve managed to do an initial packaging for Fedora of the toolchain that we use for programming the Arduino (see post with cool video). This is a big step—it means I’ve learned something about packaging, and it means we’re closer to being able to provide a really cool educational tool to the Fedora community. There’s still plenty of work to be done, but I consider this pretty exciting.
From the IRC:
04:57 < jadudm> 1 packages and 0 specfiles checked; 0 errors, 0 warnings. 04:58 <@mchua> jadudm: yay! 04:58 <@humph> jadudm: !!! 04:58 <@ctyler> jadudm: congrats! 04:58 < jadudm> tyty
This is sweet, sweet awesomeness. This is the first time I’ve seen a packaging process for our tools through this way… while I’m not done, getting to the point that rpmlint gives me zero warnings and zero errors on a compiler toolchain is (for me) a milestone. I now need to clean this up fully, write a script to automate it (eg. checkout from SVN, tarball, upload, generate .spec file, rpmbuild, rpmlint), and then modularize that process for the AVR version. So there’s a bit more work to do, but it’s well within striking distance now. ctylers, ianweller, and others have been a great help in this process.