From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27466 invoked by uid 1002); 25 Oct 2003 20:58:32 -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 16754 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2003 20:58:32 -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 22:58:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1067103837.16419.1.camel@neferteti> <3F9ADBC0.8040603@technaut.darktalker.net> <200310252239.26803.pauldv@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <200310252239.26803.pauldv@gentoo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_zPum/zpFnpEGer6"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200310252258.27501.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: 3651772a-287c-4433-be5f-94fe7f13e997 X-Archives-Hash: 6a4b0260f130bc1ccca3b6f13dc5439a --Boundary-02=_zPum/zpFnpEGer6 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 22:39, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > 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 wi= th > 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 pytho= n. Also there is a mailing list for future portage development. While it is=20 rather quiet there currently, it is meant to discuss portage developments. = It=20 is gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_zPum/zpFnpEGer6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/muPzbKx5DBjWFdsRAgioAJ47dEV79ktE049tGUeyhtHclzdCOQCbBm8u bIkid3Kyk+EzBRA/sR0V6Go= =8r/R -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_zPum/zpFnpEGer6--