From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HV96x-0007XM-KM for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:29:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2OGRPrc021486; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:27:25 GMT Received: from outmail1.freedom2surf.net (outmail1.freedom2surf.net [194.106.33.237]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2OGOdTe017785 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:24:40 GMT Received: from snowflake (82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk [82.41.57.20]) by outmail1.freedom2surf.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B09551507 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:24:39 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 16:24:40 +0000 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis Message-ID: <20070324162440.585d0dde@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <4604CE95.8060404@gentoo.org> References: <200703240028.15461.peper@gentoo.org> <4604CE95.8060404@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 57b2ae1a-73c9-4ad9-a960-b2326fc8423f X-Archives-Hash: ccb610250a84e4c1310375601d6eab03 On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:09:09 +0100 Luca Barbato wrote: > Check my counterproposal. I know it is more broad but it also fits > better Gentoo as whole. > > For the ones that aren't following gentoo-soc: > > - C/C++/Ruby/python bindings/API for package managers. > > The idea is to have some kind of common ground for applications > willing to use our wonderful package managers. Which is all very nice in theory, but completely impractical and useless in practice. There's far too much difference and far too much complexity implementation-wise to make this practical for any non-trivial functionality. -- Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list