On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:37:17PM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > The medium to long term plan for libept would therefore be to make it > disappear. The idea is to do so gradually: > > 1. move adept-specific code into adept (see #540209) > 2. remove all the code not needed by aptitude, debtags, packagesearch > and goplay > 3. submit patches to aptitude, debtags, packagesearch and goplay to > stop using some part of libept > 4. goto 2, until libept can be removed from the archive.
As I simplify the code, there seems to be bits of libept that makes sense to keep; for example, the code to parse debtags information (tags, vocabulary), or the code to locate the Xapian index. So I guess point 4 should read: > 4. goto 2, until all of libept code is actually used, cannot be > simplified any further and can be documented in one afternoon's > work Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <[email protected]>
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