Re: [gentoo-dev] new guides

[AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)]

Tom Flavel wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Apr 13, 2001 at 11:38:28AM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> >
> > We had a discussion about allowing other languages like perl or tcl/tk
> > to be used for ebuild. And decided that
> > it makes more sense converting stable parts of python code to c++. Once
> > it's all c++ we can make modules
> > for other scripting languages. I personal prefer perl as a scripting
> > language and did not investigate much
> > time in learning python. But as long as daniel is the developer of
> > ebuild it is his right do choose his
> > preferend language for development I think.
> > Our biggest problem is still that we can not spend all our time in
> > gentoo development as long as we do not have
> > sponsors.
> >
> > There is a install-gui in development that will use qt first, but it
> > will be designed in a manner that the gui
> > parts are separated from the configuration backend, so it should be easy
> > to write ncurses or gtk frontends too.
> > But do not expect that stuff next week. :-)
> >
> 
> Hi,
> 
> on a similar note, I remember discussing seperating the backend of portage
> from interfaces a while ago, but I think it may have been a bit too early :)
> 
> To recap, the idea was to have a C/C++ program listen on a pipe, then have
> interfaces (in the language of your choice) do things like
> "echo packagename>/thatpipe" - the backend would listen and install the package.
> 
> This would mean one could churn out gui's using the wigit tool of personal
> prefence, for example, with relative ease. A bouns is that as the protocol
> would be simple (basically just a package name/version and what to do with it)
> the actual behaviour would be consistent across all interfaces.
> 

Hi, 

There will be two separate libs, one for portage and one for the
configuration system.
So that pipe thing whould be a alternative frontend for the portage
libs.

achim~

> - Tom
> 
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