PKGBUILDer Ready for Prime Time!

Yesterday, I officially decided to get PKGBUILDer a life.

Have some copypaste from reddit (/r/archlinux):

I decided to share my AUR helper with the /r/archlinux community. There is a bazillion of them, but none of them fit my needs in terms of speed and usability.

The actual development of PKGBUILDer started at the end of August 2011, and it has improved greatly since then. I just released 2.1.4.4. Although the numbering started at 2.0, because 1.0 is the version number for the original Perl “script” (rewritten in 10 lines of Bash). Since then, nearly every line changed in some way. I did not make too many public announcements, though, since I believed that it was not quite ready for that. 2.1.4.0 was a release which was neatly ready for prime time. With help of fosskers (the guy behind aura, another AUR helper, that was also announced here lately), I fixed the last bugs, added downgrade functionalities and I think I got it right this time.

PKGBUILDer is an AUR helper with many useful features. They include:

• pb wrapper for pacman and PKGBUILDer (-Shv are taken and worked with, everything else is dropped down to pacman)

• pacman-style output (-S flag activates)

• translations support (looking for translators, the docs contain a guide)

• user-friendly

• no useless questions, it b

• very, VERY fast (AUR) -[Sy]u

• AUR downgrade warnings with -[Sy]u

• Python 3 + pyalpm, meaning everything is using a nice library rather than cheap pacman calls. (I do call makepkg though, but I cannot do anything else. I also ask the shell to take the dependencies out, because (ba)sh is too complex to be parsed by other things)

I’d love to see some comments, hints and contributions. Thanks in advance!

GitHub — Docs – AUR

Now, let’s get further.