RIP perl-xyne-arch, powerpill, bauerbill, etc

the sad clown · 2011-03-25 00:59:11

I wanted to add my thanks as well. Although I have only been using Arch for a little while, I really appreciated Powerpill.

whitethorn · 2011-03-25 01:22:04

Thx for all the work, I used pkgd and bauerbill great job. Can't wait for you next contribution.

renuvio · 2011-03-25 01:29:49

Well, thanks Xyne for your work on this packages. Until yesterday i used very often reflector. Good luck!

skottish · 2011-03-25 01:45:17

Xyne wrote:

I do this on my own free time so I don't owe you shit

Aha! I knew it all along!!!

I look forward to seeing what you've been working on.

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Misfit138 · 2011-03-25 01:51:43

You complete my Arch experience, Xyne.
Hurry back.

ngoonee · 2011-03-25 02:45:07

Thanks for all the fish...

And I still haven't upped to pacman-3.5 because of bauerbill

TiZ · 2011-03-25 05:58:00

Yeah, I've actually got pacman as one of my ignored packages for now. I can't quit bauerbill just yet.

Thank you for all your work.

SanskritFritz · 2011-03-25 06:07:05

ngoonee wrote:

And I still haven't upped to pacman-3.5 because of bauerbill

+1

Army · 2011-03-25 08:29:42

Dude you have a lot of friends here I didn't like bauerbill, because it used a lot of RAM on my machine, which made it very slow because of the swapping. But I also understand your decision and I'm really looking forward to your new releases. Your other packages which don't have to do anything with pacman are still awesome. Your work is HIGHLY appreciated here. But I don't have to continue, the posts before mine already pointed that out.

handy · 2011-03-25 08:34:05

Thanks Xyne, I'll miss some of your great projects but hey!

Don't let this computer shit get in the way of a life that sees sunshine & green growing things.

Thanks.

Himmi.Jimmy · 2011-03-25 08:56:24

SanskritFritz wrote:

ngoonee wrote:
And I still haven't upped to pacman-3.5 because of bauerbill
+1

+1

and thanks for this great tool!

X-dark · 2011-03-25 09:32:58

Thanks for these great projects. They were great!

Need to find the way to continue using aria2 with pacman now.

bharani · 2011-03-25 09:37:38

Nice tools xyne.Thanks for your contribution.

capoeira · 2011-03-25 11:24:47

damn, what do I use instead of reflector now?

milomouse · 2011-03-25 13:44:37

Finally discarded my beloved `bauerbill' (the only program to fully handle everything I needed, especially when creating a simple interface between regular -Syu repo updates with building from source and programming modules/libraries), and took the inevitable upgrade in pacman. While the new version is indeed nice and does it's intended job well, I find myself -Syu'ing less and relying almost solely on the rsync interface to ABS instead of via `bauerbill', also no AUR helpers in it's place so I don't search there anymore either. Bauerbill was certainly the center of my package-management experience though I am a patient person and look forward to these hinted improvements elsewhere down the road. I always laugh at myself when I'm looking everywhere for a program that has a certain functionality, everything I check missing that one aspect, and I come across something of yours that works perfect. Makes me feel stupid for not checking there first, though in a good way.

Needless to say, I have greatly appreciated your work, Xyne, especially in `bauerbill', and never had a problem I didn't get an immediate response, if not an immediate fix to. It basically came to the point where I had no problems at all and felt bad for not posting in the thread anymore even though I used it constantly. Though, as I can see by the post count and expressed sentiments in this topic, I'm not the only one who feels this way. Heck, this thread alone is moving fast enough to brush the tailcoats of "those other programs" threads (no offense to them, by any means).

Anyway, (without drolling on to the point of lossing my intended expression) I don't usually express my thanks as much as I'd like to but since your hard work and great attitude has affected me so greatly in this community I had to at least give you the time of day when you gave so much more. So, thank you Xyne, for everything. I see brights things in the future.

dhave · 2011-03-25 14:30:10

Bauerbill was my friend. Good-bye, bauerbill.

karlzt · 2011-03-25 15:20:47

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G_P · 2011-03-25 17:00:44

Thank you for your efforts.
I will miss powerpill v_v

imag1narynumber · 2011-03-25 17:05:46

Verily, thanks for all of your work.

Awebb · 2011-03-25 18:58:16

Clyde and bauerbill used to be an unbeatable tag-team on my machine. Whenever one of them would not do the job for whatever reason, the other one did.

I really enjoyed using that tool. The best part was typing "bauerbill" when someone looked at my screen. Don't know if you speak any German, "Bauer Bill" translates into "Farmer Bill" very well. :-D

losl · 2011-03-25 19:31:26

Thanks xyne, for everything!

Myounage · 2011-03-25 19:49:18

Expect this to get stickied soon or something, as pacman -Syu cannot be successfully run with anything that depends on perl-xyne-arch installed.

archtaku · 2011-03-25 19:54:01

I'll add myself to the long list of people to thank you for your hard work. Thanks so much! I will miss reflector most of all. Hope to see something like it in the future.

ngoonee · 2011-03-25 20:44:24

Myounage wrote:

Expect this to get stickied soon or something, as pacman -Syu cannot be successfully run with anything that depends on perl-xyne-arch installed.

While I'm a happy user of Xyne's work, its still unofficial stuff and therefore shouldn't be stickied. Every Archer knows (or should know) that AUR helpers don't have official status (nor do any other AUR packages).

Xyne · 2011-03-25 21:21:00

Thanks all for the warm replies. It was a nice surprise to see so many

Just to be clear, I'm still supporting all of my other projects and I'm not going anywhere. I'm just binning perl-xyne-arch.

I've rewritten reflector in Python 3 for those of you that are already missing it: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115714

As for pkgd, take a look at quickserve for a possible alternative. If I find some more time, I might write a custom subclass for sharing packages the way that PkgD did (central "one-stop" master server that can silently query slaves).

I might also write a simple "back-to-basics powerpill-light" script for rudimentary aria2c support (which is how powerpill started)... the slow downloads are driving me crazy.

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