Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:50:15AM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> I think it is generally a good idea to add configure to the patch, because it
> is a bit confusing that the configure in work exists but does not work. So
> eigther it must be removed if configure.in gets modified or added to the
> patch.

I agree with your suggestion.  Sorry, I should have made that more clear in the
previous email.

> > Though I'll agree, it would be nice to have a Perl-free system (drobbins hides)
> 
> Unfortunately xfree requires perl, so it whould be a xfree free system
> too.

> BTW: It whould be nice to have a python free runtime system too (nothing
> personal this time, so no need to run or hide :-)).  This is impossible at
> the moment because of the env-update thing. It might be required on embedded
> platforms where disc space is rare (spython ~5MB).  I suggest recode
> env-update in bash or c.

Well, pkgmerge, ebuild and emerge are in python right now too.  I don't have a problem
if people want to start converting the more stable code to C++.  A good start would be
env-update and the .tbz2 functions (/usr/lib/python2.0/xpak.py).  Since we're moving to
an object framework, I think that C++ would be a better fit than C.

If anyone is interested in doing this, please contact me first.  Then I'll carefully
coordinate my work in python with yours.

Best Regards,

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