I have been extensively looking at the Fink coding and Perl scripts/libraries, and I think I have an idea. I believe that much of the Fink code needs an overhaul. The whole dependancy system is starting to break down. (See recent threads involving splitoff/shared libs problems) Also, a proposed extension to the info file format, variants, requires a much improved system to be in place. The recent storable-pm/indexing inclusion into Fink has alleviated this third problem, that of speed, but in the future it will be desirable to further increase the speed of the parser. I would like to propose that the core of the fink parser be rewritten to include all recently added features, and fix many of the dependancy problems springing up from the shlibs project. I am willing to work on this for a while. It may not be an immediate transition, but I would like to transition to a faster, more bug free system. I also think that it the parser is rewritten, it should be redone in C, C++, or Objective-C, whatever this list decides upon.
Everyone, please voice your opinions, Thanks, Kyle D. Moffett _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
