On Tuesday 21 March 2006 12:32, Alec Warner wrote: > m h wrote: > > I'm not a gentoo dev (just a satisfied user), but I lurk on this list. > > > > I was at PyCon last month. I would estimate that about 40% of the > > people there ran linux on their laptops. The most popular distros > > were gentoo and ubuntu. (Not this is not a scientific study, just my > > observations from talking to people there). While I was there the > > person next to me starting hacking the ebuild classes to handles eggs > > (so he could emerge turbogears). I talked to at least 3 others who > > were running gentoo. I asked all of them if they had worked on > > portage. Most said "No, the code is a little scary". (I'll concur > > with that sentiment, as the code doesn't feel very pythonic). > > > > If you want to attract more developers (python people), a few things are > > needed: > > That depends on how they contribute, I personally don't want random > python master bob contributing pieces to portage itself. Portage things > are not necessarily as simple as people make them out to be. Even > developers who know the code well make mistakes in adding and removing > code. As solar once pointed out "the only man I trust to touch the > resolver is Jstubbs." I realize thats a bit elitest...but at the same > time...I am overly cautious ;)
The resolver as it stands now is not overly difficult. One does really need to know it back to front though. I should really make splitting it out and documenting it my big project for 2.2. -- Jason Stubbs -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
