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 1HXP97-0003rj-DI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:00:34 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l2ULwGJD026882; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:58:16 GMT Received: from argo.arachnion.zzZZzz.net (argo.arachnion.zzZZzz.net [62.27.45.185]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l2ULsJ46020772 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 21:54:20 GMT Received: from pd953a702.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([217.83.167.2]) by argo.arachnion.zzZZzz.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.42) id 1HXP2x-0001un-BU for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:54:11 +0200 Message-ID: <460D86EE.9090308@klever.net> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:53:50 +0200 From: Michael Krelin User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070321) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [soc] Python bindings for Paludis References: <200703240028.15461.peper@gentoo.org> <200703271519.29674.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070327211510.0b426e09@snowflake> <200703301404.16400.vapier@gentoo.org> <20070330193517.1c84fda1@snowflake> <1175280640.7385.8.camel@laptop> <20070330195620.19054275@snowflake> <460D760B.708@klever.net> <20070330214755.1aaaaa4d@snowflake> In-Reply-To: <20070330214755.1aaaaa4d@snowflake> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ab30cd05-a592-48ef-bdc3-ede6a04d34a2 X-Archives-Hash: 47872b1a3bc7740236bed09f17d3bc0a >>> It depends upon the degree to which one specifies 'sendmail >>> compatibility'. Does it mean "shares some of the same commandline >>> options" or "shares exactly the same configuration file format and >>> all bugs and produces identical output"? >> I think Mike mentioned compatiblebinaries. Not sure if he implied >> identical output, but compatible command line would be nice. I don't >> think it's a huge obstacle for paludis, though. > > If it's just an issue of command line, then it's not an issue at all. > Even configuration support isn't a major problem (Paludis trunk has > highly experimental and highly buggy partial Portage config reading > support). The question is whether scripts that, say, parse emerge -pv > output have to carry on working. I think this requirement would put portage itself in quite uncomfortable situation. Love, H -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list