Re: "dselect" replacement team
> BUT, I think that re-doing it _in C++_ is a mistake. In addition to
> the other reasons I've given, I wonder if anyone has any information
> on the relative difficulty of interfacing C and C++ to the important
> scripting languages (Perl, Python, Tcl). From what I understand, it's
> much harder to do in C++ than C. If one of the benefits of having a
> libdpkg with a well defined interface is to facilitate that, then
> let's not neglect that aspect.
Interfacing C++ to Perl: same as C (not bad)
Interfacing C++ to Tcl: same as C (trivial)
Interfacing C++ to Python: no idea
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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