On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 02:11:58PM -0500, Simon Kirby wrote: > I decided to use libdpkg over libapt because I am not familiar with C++, > and libapt seems to be making use of C++ heavily. You can interface to C++ from C without too much trouble: doing things like, apt_c_version.cc: #include <apt-pkg/version.h> extern "C" { int versioncmp(char *left, char *right) { return pkgVersionCompare(left, right); } } and then using versioncmp("1.2-3", "0.3-5") as you would strcmp() from C. You need to be a little cleverer at abstracting objects when you need to pass them around, and use void*'s and such, but it's not too tricky. (From my experience with just the versioncmp stuff, libapt's is *muchly* preferable: it's significantly faster, and doesn't leave dangling chunks of memory lying about) Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG encrypted mail preferred. ``The thing is: trying to be too generic is EVIL. It's stupid, it results in slower code, and it results in more bugs.'' -- Linus Torvalds
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