On Saturday 25 October 2003 22:23, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Paul de Vrieze wrote:
>
> I'm not very good with Python, but I'm interested in helping to design a
> better dependency checker. Could you give me a summary of the way the
> checker currently works or point me to a document that describes it? Or
> should I just learn Python?

Currently pvdabeel is working on a dependency checker. You should talk with 
him about it (I'm not working on portage myself). Depending on your skill set 
you might be happy to hear it has more to do with graph theory and graph 
walking algorithms (like Dijkstra's shortest path), than with python.

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
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