Re: Time to rewrite dpkg
Hi Marek,
On 19 May, Marek Habersack wrote:
> * Ossama Othman said:
>, but rather to it's
> implementation on the GNU platform, which is now in its young days - it's
> constantly changing, the features are being added, standard being
> implemented in more and more detail. This situation will no doubt incurr
> many changes both in the source code of the programs (new keywords, syntax
> changed at places, library classes etc.) but also in the generated binaries
> interfaces - esp in the shared libraries.
I don't believe that the situation is nearly as bad as you depict it.
A few years ago I would agree with you but the fact that there is now a
standard means that the standard C++ APIs/keywords/syntax will generally
not change.
> > fairly stable in terms of existing language feature support. Stuff
> > like RTTI and exception handling aren't major issues since they can
> > easily be disabled.
> But it DOES change the binary representation of the program, esp. name
> mangling - which is the major headache with C++ right now.
Again, I don't think the name mangling issue is so bad. Then again, I
program exclusively in C++ so I am admittedly biased toward it.
-Ossama
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Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
Center for Distributed Object Computing, Washington University, St. Louis
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