From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4648 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Oct 2003 20:39:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 22137 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2003 20:39:34 -0000 X-Cert-subject: /C=US/ST=Oklahoma/L=Oklahoma/O=SNU/CN=mail.gentoo.org/Email=postmaster@gentoo.org From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 22:39:25 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1067103837.16419.1.camel@neferteti> <200310252201.05141.pauldv@gentoo.org> <3F9ADBC0.8040603@technaut.darktalker.net> In-Reply-To: <3F9ADBC0.8040603@technaut.darktalker.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_+9tm/tOn6PrJIpK"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310252239.26803.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.5 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-milter (http://amavis.org/) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop X-Archives-Salt: 34508090-1450-4ef6-82ad-9065aed453dd X-Archives-Hash: 578244a7e2ea73c0fb16eefecc88e21a --Boundary-02=_+9tm/tOn6PrJIpK Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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= =20 him about it (I'm not working on portage myself). Depending on your skill s= et=20 you might be happy to hear it has more to do with graph theory and graph=20 walking algorithms (like Dijkstra's shortest path), than with python. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_+9tm/tOn6PrJIpK Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/mt9+bKx5DBjWFdsRAnSSAKCy0a5ZWRqL/O893B/OTowcNdFUmACg5mVy V8ZZMWFgL18mJR2WEdW65u8= =M79z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_+9tm/tOn6PrJIpK--