On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:07:39 +0000 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 15:46:59 +0100 > Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:15:37 +0700 > > "C. Bergström" <cbergst...@pathscale.com> wrote: > > > > > Long term the API to pkgcore could be beneficial, but > > > again I'm not sure it's a game changer for users. > > > > Long term, we should have an independent API backend that tools can > > query; not rewrite our tools every time users want to use them with > > a different package manager. > > Not an API. APIs are bad. What we should have is a good set of > lightweight Unix-friendly command line tools. See, for example, the > "Scripting Commands" section of "man cave". It still is an API that way, just expressed differently; if you would only do this you're introducing forks where you might not need them. Providing shell commands is one possible binding to the API... -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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