On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:01 pm, Max Horn wrote:
So, for now, instead of charging ahead and trying to write a new
dependency engine from scratch or trying to retrofit an existing one,
I went to try to write down what our needs are. Then based on this, I
started to develop ideas on
On Freitag, Jänner 31, 2003, at 01:01 Uhr, Max Horn wrote:
Hi folks,
Hello Max.
For some time, I hoped we might be able to just reuse the apt engine
(and the hope is still not completely gone), but as far as I can tell
it can't cope with build time only dependencies (but there is the
At 12:50 Uhr +0100 31.01.2003, David wrote:
On Freitag, J§nner 31, 2003, at 01:01 Uhr, Max Horn wrote:
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I think that it would be an excellent idea to use something like a
Wiki. If you want I can install such a system on one of the boxen I
have authority over.
shrug Never got the hang
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Hmm, I might be able to do some of that... I know enough PPC assembler
to do __asm__ statements inside C, but not enough to write whole
functions (don't know how to do stack frames).
I am learning it already. Found some pretty good information on it.
Things like linked lists, btrees and
OK, my promised second mail will have to wait till tomorrow. I just
got home after spending 8 hours in my car, 4 of those standing in one
spot on the highway, at -2 degree celsius with no car heating
(highway was blocked for hours due to a crash). I really don't feel
like anything but sleep
Hi folks,
in the recent months, the problems with Fink's dependency engine (and
dpkg's, and the way they interact) have become more and more
apparent. Various problems are basically impossible to overcome with
the current design, hence it seems we need a new full fledged
dependency engine.