Re: Time to rewrite dpkg IN IDL! :)
Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> writes:
> 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"?
Sure, and without complete overkill, how will we take full advantage
of the second-system effect? :-)
> 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.
Then you're not looking very carefully. "It's overkill" may turn out
to be a valid objection, but "it couldn't benefit from OO" is, IMO,
completely false. Elisp packages spring to mind. We *do* have
different classes of package; we just force them all into the same
mold.
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or xtifr@debian.org | above, but it is too long to fit into
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