From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1766 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2004 21:35:06 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 4 Jul 2004 21:35:06 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BhEdc-0001go-2u for arch-gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Jul 2004 21:35:04 +0000 Received: (qmail 11609 invoked by uid 89); 4 Jul 2004 21:35:03 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-portage-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail Reply-To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 19269 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2004 21:35:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: References: <40E1B899.2040601@charlies-server.no-ip.com> <200406291415.18659.george@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v618) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <0138E3F4-CE02-11D8-AAD5-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Pieter Van den Abeele X-Image-Url: http://research.metadistribution.org/me-small.jpg From: Pieter Van den Abeele Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 23:35:01 +0200 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.618) Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Re: Re: portage-ng roadmap? X-Archives-Salt: 5a69a4c1-1764-4dc5-9112-3cf191ba06b0 X-Archives-Hash: 85ce406b3632e771807fde63d8bda8b5 On 30 Jun 2004, at 11:03, Adrian Gschwend wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:15:18 -0700, George Shapovalov wrote: > >> Well, what's going on is not that its "legally dead". It got its >> start and we >> threw a bunch of comments on the "design". However there does not >> seem to be >> much push behind it at the moment. I suspect there may be only one dev >> working on it (pvdabeel?), if at all. However there is clearly an >> effort to >> clean-up and enhance the [oroginal] portage under way. > > ok after all I care less about a portage-ng but about something I can > use on > non-Linux platforms :-) Is pvdabeel also reading this list? Yep, sorry. I was at WWDC, back now. Current portage uses some old algorithms, and features get continuously added. The portage team itself is working on cleaning up the code; There is jstubbs portage modularization efforts, last snapshot I looked at got all the global variables at the beginning of the file, ... Portage-ng comes in where old portage stops: revisiting the core algorithms. I am working on a new core that leads to better expressiveness, better performance and shorter, more intuitive, code. This obviously leads to better non-Linux support, but that is not the only reason for doing this. The reason I'm doing this alone atm, is because I'm doing this as a MCS thesis. Best regards, Pieter Van den Abeele > cu > > Adrian > > > > > -- > gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list > -- gentoo-portage-dev@gentoo.org mailing list