Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-02-14 Thread Carsten Klapp
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

Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-01-31 Thread David
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

Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-01-31 Thread Max Horn
At 12:50 Uhr +0100 31.01.2003, David wrote: On Freitag, Jˆ§nner 31, 2003, at 01:01 Uhr, Max Horn wrote: [...] 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

Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-01-31 Thread David
snip 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

Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-01-31 Thread Max Horn
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

[Fink-devel] On dependency engines

2003-01-30 Thread Max Horn
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.