Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Klaus Kaempf
Arvin, thanks a lot for stepping forward and starting this dicussion ! * Arvin Schnell aschn...@suse.de [Jan 28. 2011 16:50]: So what seems desirable and feasible? Some ideas: Which goals would you achieve by implementing these ideas ? 1) Replace YCP with some common language? With more

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Klaus Kaempf
* Arvin Schnell aschn...@suse.de [Jan 31. 2011 10:54]: The currently generated bindings for libstorage are so bad that almost every function has handwritten make-it-usable-code in YCP. This hinders moving code from YCP to C++. Apart from that we even need workarounds in libstorage to avoid

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Thomas Goettlicher
On Friday, January 28, 2011 04:50:10 pm Arvin Schnell wrote: So what seems desirable and feasible? Some ideas: 1) Replace YCP with some common language? With more that 100 modules this looks impossible. 2) Allow a common language next to YCP? A good integration seems difficult.

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Arvin Schnell
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 10:53:51AM +0100, Klaus Kaempf wrote: Arvin, thanks a lot for stepping forward and starting this dicussion ! * Arvin Schnell aschn...@suse.de [Jan 28. 2011 16:50]: So what seems desirable and feasible? Some ideas: Which goals would you achieve by

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Josef Reidinger
Duncan Mac-Vicar P. write: I would suggest a step by step reborn instead of a replace by something we will write from scratch someday but does not exist yet. Taking the bests parts of it (libyui) plus support for a couple of more popular languages, and rethinking some parts like SCR, or

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Jiri Srain
On Monday 31 January 2011 11:10:55 Thomas Goettlicher wrote: On Friday, January 28, 2011 04:50:10 pm Arvin Schnell wrote: So what seems desirable and feasible? Some ideas: 1) Replace YCP with some common language? With more that 100 modules this looks impossible. 2) Allow a

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Bart Whiteley
On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:35 AM, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote: 1) Replace YCP with some common language? With more that 100 modules this looks impossible. I think this is a good and the only viable option if YaST code should survive in long run. +1. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [yast-devel] Direction of YaST Architecture?

2011-01-31 Thread Bart Whiteley
On Jan 31, 2011, at 5:03 AM, Josef Reidinger wrote: - Use a couple of languages people know and like Maintenance nightmare E.g. I don't have problem to maintain projects in different languages ( now RoR, perl and YCP), but if I am maintaner and someone leave or move to another team

Re: [yast-devel] Anything but YCP

2011-01-31 Thread Martin Vidner
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:35:26PM +0100, Stanislav Višňovský wrote: So what seems desirable and feasible? Some ideas: 1) Replace YCP with some common language? With more that 100 modules this looks impossible. I think this is a good and the only viable option if YaST code should