On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:15:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I just wanted to post what my general plans are for the aptitude 0.5.0
Hi Daniel, many thanks for this mail, it was a worth read not only for Arthur after all ;) > * Dependency resolver. I feel the need to hack into this. A while ago, even though in private mail, we start discussing about the possibility of an ABI to interact with solvers external to aptitude. The goal is on one hand to support external solvers as plug-ins to be able to easy experiment with new solving algorithms without messing up with aptitude itself. On the other hand we already have (too) many package dependency solvers in Debian (apt, aptitude, pbuilder, ...) and it would be wonderful to factorize them out of the package manager codebase. I've already discussed with the APT developers about this and they are interested as well. Even though we are at 0 with the design of the interface, I'm wondering whether you are interested in adding this as a perspective feature for aptitude 0.6.0. That said ... it's time to start discussing the possible interface :) Even though the ABI, in my mind, is meant to be common across package managers, AFAICT aptitude will be the package manager with the most complex requirement to address, so it is probably worth to start the discussion here and then see how to converge to simpler package managers. Comments? Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature
_______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
