dpkg in C++?

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

"Brian C. White" <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:
> >   6) C++ anyone? :>
> Yes.

No!

If you go with C++ for all of this, you will be limiting dpkg & co.'s
portability to new platforms dramatically.

For instance, for quite some time g++ simply did not work on the
Alpha.  Period.  If we had had it together enough to try a port at
that time, and dpkg was all in C++, we'd have been totally out of
luck.

Not to mention the executable bloat issues, the fact that C++ as a
language is still in flux, and the fact that while gcc is considered a
bang-up C compiler, it's C++ support is not so whiz-bang.

Look, I think OO code is a worthy goal that will make everyone's life
simpler, but you can do OO in C just fine.

Please reconsider this.

Mike.