Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

[Havoc Pennington <hp@Mcs.Net>]

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, P Asokan wrote:
> 
> If I want to write an install program, whom do I get in touch? I do know C
> fairly well and I would give this a crack. Will someone point me to areas of
> study, persons to contact?
> 

There is already a big plan for this, you might start with:

http://www.debian.org/~hp/gnome-apt.html 

which is the Gnome frontend for the thing, and be sure to follow the link
to Wichert's Apt UI design which also considers the terminal frontend. 

You can see code by checking it out of CVS, apt and gnome-apt modules, as
explained on that page.

If you are really interested I would start by reviewing and understanding
the source for apt-get, which is in apt/cmdline/apt-get.cc in CVS.

There is a start on the non-Gnome frontend in the apt module as well.

Havoc