Any GUI spec file builders?

[ddreggors]

I have been writing spec files by hand and it is rather simple to keep a minimal template and populate as needed but I was thinking that it is odd that there is a total lack of GUI tools for this process.

I have seen the Eclipse plugin but I am not really sure I want to install a mammoth IDE just to create spec files. Especially when I prefer to code in Netbeans.

Are there any stand alone GUI tools for easily/rapidly creating spec files?

[PabloTwo]

I'm not aware of any GUI tools to do what you ask. There is always the "rpmdev-newspec" command (part of the rpmdevtools package) which will create a basic unpopulated spec file. Besides that, there are several pre-configured spec file templates for more specialized types of packaging.

/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-R.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-dummy.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-lib.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-minimal.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-ocaml.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-perl.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-php-pear.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-python.spec
/etc/rpmdevtools/spectemplate-ruby.spec

[ddreggors]

Thanks, I am aware of these templates, I have even added some of my own for various projects.

What I was thinking of is beyond that. I was thinking maybe even making these templates as a starting point and building on them within a GUI.

I am thinking of creating a python script that will source a template in and then the GUI will run in a wizard like fashion and ask some key questions like App Name, App Version, Requires (list), Conflicts, Source, Files, etc...


First I must learn python and then how to hook into the glade file.


EDIT:

I have now started writing a C++/wxSmith app in Code::Blocks to create RPM spec files. Many might think this is pointless since it is just as easy to them to create a spec file by hand using vi/vim or emacs but to the beginner that is not so easy. I have been writing and editing spec files for some time now and I still find it hard to remember syntax or all the flags to the macros for example.

I have compiled a document that has all of the flags, macros, scripts, etc... that can be used in a spec file. Now that the spec file outline work is complete, I have started work on the app. I have in fact already hit my first bug:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=263281

So if any are interested or would like to follow the progress... just send me a private message here on the forums. If there is enough interest I may be persuaded to add the project to source forge.