On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 23:18, scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As for finding the current version > of each of the OptionalPackages, you could get that by looking through > OptionalPackages: > http://dev.haiku-os.org/export/34066/haiku/trunk/build/jam/OptionalPackages > > A script could search that file and parse out the name of the package > and it's current link and install to location and then use wget to > download and install it. Since python isn't included by default in > the nightlies, the script would probably need to be a bash script. > Perhaps a bash bootstrap that first downloads and installs python and > then gets a python script to handle the rest. See http://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/4680 I started one, but got held up on figuring out the best way for handling the logic in the jamfiles --- eg, writing a parser/api in sh, writing alternative JamRules & friends to override the current jam-base action rules. --mmadia