Re: Time to rewrite dpkg
*Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 01:03:46AM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
>
> > 3. Most programmers would write code in C
>
> Yeah, uh. But that's the point isn't it?
>
> The current dpkg is written in C. How many programmers are working on it?
I've often wondered about that. Occaisionally I see people getting
involved, or offering patches, and it seems that IWJ is not interested. I
will not speculate on what may be going on, but I have always found the
development of dpkg to be rather curious. Anyone know what is going on ?
>
> The only contributions to our packaging systems today are done with C++
> (apt), and perl (install methods).
>
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John Lapeyre <lapeyre@physics.arizona.edu>, lapeyre@debian.org
Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
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