Control: tags -1 - confirmed + wontfix
2012-12-08 03:27 Daniel Hartwig:
Package: aptitude
Severity: wishlist
Tags: confirmed
Dear self
Many features requested for aptitude are only useful in a small number
of cases, yet could be quite difficult to implement or maintain. It
would be great if aptitude was extensible and the user could provide
scripts for these features.
Dear self
Thanks for your mail. I have long planned to implement support for
extensions. There are other high-priority issues to be addressed first,
but this request will not be far off.
My current plan is to support Scheme extensions, because everybody likes
Scheme. Early investigations show that this will be a straight-forward
task. Others may prefer to use Python due to the existing APT bindings
and work based on the same.
This report will be used for two purposes:
- as a blocker of requests for useful features that are not otherwise
being considered for inclusion in aptitude proper; and
- discussing ideas pertaining to the proposed extension support.
I think that, if nothing else, adding another major dependency of
aptitude for an external library/interpreter is a very undesirable thing
to do at this point.
In any case, 3+ years later, this is neither confirmed nor planned, so
marking as +wontfix.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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