Re: "dselect" replacement team

[Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman@calder.med.miami.edu>]

Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I would think it would be a bit more general than "a clone of dselect with
> different keys and colours" - a complete re-implementation of the
> packaging system so that the user interface is distinctly separate from
> the underly mechanisms, which are distinctly separate from the low-level
> access code would be very nice.

If this is done well, one would be able to simply run the result
through SWIG to generate interfaces for Perl/Python/Tcl, etc.

So please, implementors, be devoted to the notion of separating the
interface and the backend---and document it well.

Mike.