Re: dpkg in C++?
Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Did you know that Dselect right now is written in C++? I haven't heard
> any of the people working on an Alpha or PPC port that it is uncompilable
> on their platform.
dselect isn't vital for bootstrapping a new architecture, dpkg is.
Sven
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