Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] building dependency tree

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

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On Saturday 15 May 2004 15:50, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Saturday 15 May 2004 13:12, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> >>>You've already done a complete rewrite of the dependency resolver?
> >
> > Yes and no. I started from scratch but used almost exactly the same
> > logic. I guess you could almost call it refactoring. Have a look at:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/portage-mod/portageapi/?root=ge
> >ntoo-src
> >
> > Of interest to you, will probably be dep.py. Even if you do not
> > understand python, the logic should be fairly clear (I hope!). The only
> > real change from the above logic is that installed packages (including
> > their original USE flags and *DEPENDs) are also taken into account.
>
> I'll have to take a look at it. If anyone wants to take a look at my code
> (and maybe give me a few suggestions), the (almost) latest working version
> can be accessed at <http://locutus.homeip.net/dev/portage.pl>. It currently
> operates the same way 'emerge -ep' would. It doesn't generate the exact
> same packages to install as Portage, but it is pretty damn close.

May I ask what you are writing this for? Once the API I'm working on is 
completed, tested and integrated (<2 months?) I'll start working on wrappers 
for other languages. Is that the sort of thing you are after?

Regards,
Jason Stubbs
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