added g_octave.info, small fixes

2 files changed, 50 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/g_octave/config.py b/g_octave/config.py
index 924bdb8..246d48f 100644
--- a/g_octave/config.py
+++ b/g_octave/config.py
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 """
-    config.py
-    ~~~~~~~~~
+    g_octave.config
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
     This module implements a Python object to handle the configuration
     of g-octave.
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ class Config(object):
 
 
     def __init__(self, config_file=None):
-
         # config Parser
         self._config = configparser.ConfigParser(self._defaults)
         
@@ -57,7 +56,6 @@ class Config(object):
         
         # no configuration file provided as parameter
         if config_file is None:
-            
             # we just want one of the following configuration files:
             # '../etc/g-octave.cfg', '/etc/g-octave.cfg'
             available_files = [
diff --git a/g_octave/info.py b/g_octave/info.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bd0ef08
--- /dev/null
+++ b/g_octave/info.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+"""
+    g_octave.info
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    This module implements a Python object to store the external dependencies
+    and the licenses as named on the gentoo-x86 tree.
+
+    :copyright: (c) 2010 by Rafael Goncalves Martins
+    :license: GPL-2, see LICENSE for more details.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import absolute_import
+import json
+
+# py3k compatibility
+from .compat import open
+
+__all__ = ['Info', 'InfoException']
+
+
+class InfoException(Exception):
+    pass
+
+
+class Info(object):
+    
+    # dictionary with the dependencies
+    dependencies = {}
+    
+    # dictionary with the licenses
+    licenses = {}
+    
+    
+    def __init__(self, filename):
+        # try to read the file
+        from_json = {}
+        try:
+            with open(filename) as fp:
+                from_json = json.load(fp)
+        except:
+            raise InfoException('Failed to open file: %r' % filename)
+        else:
+            if 'dependencies' in from_json:
+                self.dependencies = from_json['dependencies']
+            if 'licenses' in from_json:
+                self.licenses = from_json['licenses']