On 07/29/03 Fred Van Andel wrote: > > 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.
Sure, I'm not attempting to do any coding right now without any planning and discussing. This is only a long term idea for now. Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
