On Fri, 19 Mar 1999, Kirk Saranathan wrote: > Hello, Jason. My name is Kirk Saranathan and I'm one of the engineers > at Corel working on the Corel Linux distribution. I was given your > contact info by Wichert Akkerman. I'm hoping to get some info from you > about the internals of apt so that I may modify (or create) a package > management front-end to use apt. I'm currently reading the source on > the apt package and am still learning. I read about a gnome frontend to > apt but haven't been able to find anything thus far (except for kpackage > which uses dpkg directly). Could you point me in the right direction? > > I hope we can work together to make debian packagement management easier > for the average Linux user. >
Kirk, I'm the author of the Gnome frontend; you can find out more at http://www.debian.org/~hp/gnome-apt.html. I have a giant task-list on that web page. :-) There is also a link to Wichert's UI design document, which should be interesting for you. Of course it's my hope that Corel will be interested in contributing to gnome-apt rather than starting a new project, but if nothing else gnome-apt should be a good source of examples on how to use the Apt library. apt-get is the other major source of examples. I would suggest checking Apt and gnome-apt out of CVS, so you have the source code around to play with and learn from. Right now the Gnome packages you need to compile gnome-apt are in a special staging area; but they should be in the main unstable distribution in a matter of days. I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about Gnome or gnome-apt; Jason is the expert on the apt-pkg library, though, so he is probably the person to contact for that. Thanks, Havoc
