[Savannah-help-public] [Savannah] srcinst want to be a GNU package

[savannah-hackers]

Hi,

The following project was submitted to Savannah. It needs evaluation to
become a GNU package, can you give it a look, please ? 

Submitter: <address@hidden>
Project Full Name:  GNU source installer
Project System Name:  srcinst
License:  gpl
Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=7641
Description: This software is a Source Installer.
It has been already implemented and works now.

It provides a simple GUI, which can be used to open a source package in
various formats (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .shar, .shar.gz, ..) and perform
configuration, compilation, installation, removal and package tracking.

A package can be present in the system in these forms:

1) installed (binaries and stuff in their place)
2) configured source (ready for future installation, for example)
3) installed+configured source

During uninstall, the program performs a crosscheck between make uninstall
results and its own tracking of installed files, and prompts the user if
something has been left by make uninstall.

It works best with software prepared for distribution with the autotools.

It reads both the configure script and configure --help output to detect
autoconf generated scripts and to detect supported options and env
variables

It also works when configure script is custom or absent, but what is
really necessary is a Makefile. Without a makefile, this stuff does not
work.

It detects autogen scripts and tries to build the configure script using
that, if ./configure is not available directly.

This program does not hide operations. Instead, a pseudo-console is
available, which prompts all the commands it executes with comments, and
also all errors, warnings, etc from ./configure are reported.

Please tell me if it looks like a good idea, and if I can make this an
official GNU project. I am ready to assign copyright to the FSF.

Currently it's copyrighted by me under GPL &quot;v2 or later&quot;
license.

Current implementation is based on expectk,
but I intend to work on other versions.



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