Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (07/29/2003 15:08) >On 07/29/03 daniel wrote: > >> On July 29, 2003 04:48 pm, Marius Mauch wrote: >> > The better way would be to rewrite portage with a modular approach, >> > so it can use different backends (the current code is not very >> > friendly for that). But that needs a lot of time. >> >> alright then, i have some (not much, but some time). what languages >> do i need to know? like i said earlier, i'm just a webgeek >> (perl/php/mysql) but i'm willing to dive into python if it means >> getting a more robust portage. > >No one is currently working on that and AFAIK there are no plans for a >portage rewrite in the near future, so it's hard to say what languages >will be needed for that. Most likely are C/C++ or Python, but that's >just my opinion.
Someone did write a db back end and posted it to bugzilla. Carpaski was looking at it but I dont know if anything actually came from it. I suggest you actually discuss this with carpaski before you attempt a rewrite, you might just save yourself some grief. Fred Van Andel [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KeyID: 76526AD599455482 GPG fingerprint: 64E4 4BAB 9C99 D565 3E3C F5D0 7652 6AD5 9945 5482 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
