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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@technaut.darktalker.net>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:11:58 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F9CB72E.4070103@technaut.darktalker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067123852.1980.11.camel@green>

Grant Goodyear 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?
> 
> Your best bet is to wade through the code, of course.  Fortunately,
> python is fairly readable.  You can get an idea of how portage is
> structured from my gentoo page at http://emu.gentoo.org/~g2boojum/.

What I'll probably end up trying to do is implementing the current dependency checker in 
Perl and then going from there.

-- 
Andrew Gaffney


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-26  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-25 17:43 [gentoo-dev] wxGTK {up|down}grade loop Ruben Vermeersch
2003-10-25 17:58 ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-10-25 20:00   ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-25 20:23     ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-10-25 20:39       ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-25 20:58         ` Paul de Vrieze
2003-10-25 23:17       ` Grant Goodyear
2003-10-27  6:11         ` Andrew Gaffney [this message]
     [not found]   ` <20031025200632.GA5274@whitestar>
2003-10-27  6:01     ` Andrew Gaffney
2003-10-25 18:16 ` Brian Jackson

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