On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 09:23:23PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > So, can someone maybe summarize what the Ubuntu plans currently are? > Switching to PackageKit, getting rid of the parts of Aptd which are > covered in PK? Because otherwise, creating a Click backend for PK > doesn't make that much sense, if Aptd would have to reimplement it > anyway... (Then, using Aptd directly would be the faster-to-implement > choice)
Right now I'm just trying to develop a prototype. I don't much care what we end up using; I expect that reimplementing will be significantly quicker than arguing about it in advance, and in any case I have no input into what the desktop guys choose to do with PK/aptdaemon. However, experimenting with any of these makes it easier for me to make the low-level code the right shape. > Some OT note: Is there a specific reason why this thing is called > Click? IMHO this is a very bad naming choice which constantly leads to > confusin, as there are/were Klik, Glick, Glick2 and Klick, which had > similar goals (only Glick still exists in form of Glick2). I'm not a huge fan of it either, but the name predates my involvement and I hate naming arguments sufficiently that - whatever. > Some hint about the code (in PK clickpackage branches): Currently you > have PackageKit spawning a Click helper which itself calls a click > binary... It might make sense to implement the Click backend in C/C++ > rather than in Python. The native backends get much nicer error > reporting, and the past has shown that they are also faster (might not > apply to the click case, and might not be the primary goal, but > still...). So, if the click backend "just" spawns some other tool and > catches it's output, doing a C implementation might not be that hard. > Of course, if you plan more complex stuff and like Python better, feel > free to use it ;-) Yep. I prefer to stick with Python for now just for rapid prototyping reasons, but no reason for that to be permanent. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-appstore-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
