"Dwayne C . Litzenberger" wrote: > > Hello! > > I'm starting work on a new linux package manager. The idea is to be able to > replace rpm, dpkg, apt, dselect (backend) with one,written mostly from scratch > and designed to be as simple (code, not features) and clean as possible. For > now, the work will be strictly academic, but if it works out, it may evolve > into future standard package manager. >
open up a co-ordination page on sourceforge and start a public design process. do not stick to a religious idea like "it should be written in C, or in perl". if you're really doing it for univ./research institute you will need some new features, otherwise the tool you're describing is a simple python/perl wrapper script that provides a common CLI to those tools that you mention. It would call 'em, UNIX way. So you need to give more details on what you want to achieve. Having some concrete goals is very important in this free software enterprise. > So my question is: What do you wish for in a package manager? > That it isn't just a package manager. It should cook the coffee for me. More importantly: It should be re-usable as a library for implementing packages/modules for PLs· That would make it pretty academic :) As a matter of fact I claimed to Anthony Towns that I'd rewrite dpkg for a test of skill during a friendly exchange. That's one of the features I really want for my future implementation. What do you think? Thanks, -- Eray (exa) Ozkural Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo