OK, back to what’s new and amazing. Some days ago I wrote an article on RememberTheMilk, a really awesome to-do list website (I have 60+ and counting tasks listed over there now!). However a main issue with it is that even though it’s extremely accessible through lots of mediums (phone, email, twitter, plasmoids, etc) – they are all graphical! We’re missing a command line interface for it!

Well, not quite so. With some Google-fu I found some French guy with a fetish for white rabbits (no, seriously this time I’m friggin’ sure he’s french) who made a command line tool. It’s not much more than a script, but that doesn’t stop me from me from putting it in the sunrise Portage overlay so Gentooer’s can get it! Actually, what did stop me was the fact that 1) I didn’t know how to write ebuilds, 2) I didn’t have an account to commit ebuilds to the sunrise-overlay, and 3) I didn’t have a GPG key (for part 2).

So, a while later learning about ebuild writing, getting a key and a commit-able account, babysat ever so generously by hwoarang and idl0r for the ebuild part and scarabeus for the key and account, I have today commited two ebuilds to the sunrise overlay (layman -a sunrise). The first is app-misc/rtm, which is the tool itself, and the second is dev-perl/WebService-RTMAgent, which is a Perl module (dependency for rtm). I’m not sure when it’ll get into the publicly approved sunrise overlay, but it’s definitely there in the developer checkout (Unless I borked up the commit).

So, install it, try it out on your architectures (I’m only ~amd64 dont’ forget), and enjoy! Hopefully this’ll mark the start of more Gentoo contribution. Or it will if I don’t get distracted and play this game about white rabbits. – or maybe this one, which is more related to rabbits – in more ways than one.

What the hell do rabbits and ebuilds have in common? :P Stupid French guy.

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