Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:25:17PM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:50:38AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote:
> >
> > I think an interesting approach would be to use CORBA. Make dpkg into
> > a networkable server for polymorphic package objects! G'wan, I dare
> > ya! :-)
>
> I don't see why not.
How about "it's complete overkill"?
> (and non-language specific) design that could be implemented easily enough
> in _many_ languages. There are a few OO tools (I'm thinking Rational Rose
> in particular) that can do code generation from UML work, which could mean
> that we could decide on a design before decending to our baser instincts
> to argue about what language it should be implemented in :)
I don't see anything in the Debian packaging system which fits
OO very well at all. We have just one type of package; there are no
special sub-types, for example.
Hamish
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