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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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