Re: Proposal: Automatic query servicing for dpkg installation scripts

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
[comments on use of ASN.1 notation for this purpose]
  >Some things we should look at,
  >  - Free ASN.1 parsers/libraries, I think one is around
  >  - What fields can be borrowed from SNMP and what more do we need?
  >  - Consider how we would model some of the existing setup scripts 
  >    in ASN.1 and verifiy that this -IS- an acceptable model.
  >[Anyone want to do these? I should be working on APT.]
  >
  >dtxtdb is not at all the same solution as this - it models the backend
  >native database/cache, which does not deal with any of these issues.
  >
  >As a final thought, it is my belief that implementing a 'simple' system
  >like Oliver started with would be suicide. We would lock ourselves into
  >something that is not extensible or realizable into a powerfull GUI.

I accept that.  

Does anyone else want to take this project on?  I can see that my original
idea is too simple and this will take some time and effort to do well.
I'm not sure that I have the time to spend just at the moment.

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