[gentoo-portage-dev] Portage-NG implementation language(s)

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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Hi,

Seeing this "language war" on -dev I think I should say again that the
component model should make us free from language restrictions. There is
no sense in saying "we should use language XXX for portage-ng" as the
goal should be that each component can be implemented in the best
fitting language. So it should be possible to have the dependency
resolver in prolog, the ebuild parser in perl, the frontend in python,
the storage backend in C and so on. Instead of arguing about the "best"
language for implementation we should discuss about the language for the
_interface_ for the component interaction.
Once we have decided on that we can start creating the global
architecture that describes which components interact with each other,
which components are mandatory or optional and so on. Later in that
process we can specify the first function signatures and start
implementing the individual components. Then and not earlier we have to
choose the implementation language.
I hope we can stop the "let's use XXX" discussion now.

Marius

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