[Savannah-hackers] savannah.gnu.org: submission of The Turtle Autobuilder

[marcus]

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Marcus Brinkmann <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: The Turtle Autobuilder
System name: turtle
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

Turtle is written to do similar things very often without losing control
over what happens. Usually, to repeat a certain sequence of commands, you
would probably use the cron(1) utility. However, certain tasks can not be
completely automated or are likely to fail in a number of cases. In this
case, you might want a finer control over what is happening.

Turtle offers advanced features like a covenient and secure mail
interface, complex locking to enable several runs at the same time and
full logging of all activities. In addition, Turtle is easy to
install.  Users can run their own turtles.

Turtle is extensible: The object oriented design allows for further types of
tasks being added without changing the Turtle code. The interface is very
lean, so you can implement virtually any task in Turtle. Currently, you can
extend Turtle only in its native language, perl, but general classes that
abstract a common operation may enable a more abstract programming of
Turtle\'s behaviour later.

Turtle exists, it is currently hosted at SourceForge, see 
http://turtle.sourceforge.net
I want to move it to savannah because I don\'t think that sourceforge is the 
right place to promote a free software project anymore, and maybe it becomes a 
GNU project later.  For example, I could imagine it to be the software to build 
all savannah hosted projects automatically on compile farms ;)