Re: Things Havoc needs..
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> - Internationalization. gnome-apt strings are translated by gettext,
> we already have a French translation from Vincent Renardias, but
> strings from apt-pkg are not translated. Possible solutions
> include using gettext in libapt-pkg, or having the apt-pkg strings
> be "replaceable" somehow.
AFAIK gettext has issues with this. Apparently you are not supposed to put
strings in libraries. Blah I say.
> - Machine editing of sources.list
Oh um, erm.. I guess so :|
> - "Cancel" feature for download dialog
This I think can be done easially.. I'd like to wait till I can test it
thought..
> - For the Import/Export package list items, I'm not really sure what
> the implementation involves. Maybe it will involve apt-pkg.
> I haven't thought about it.
I'm not sure what these were to do, wasn't it just a list of selected
packages?
> - I still haven't written the "extract list of sections" function,
> perhaps this should be part of the cache?
Not sure, it is fairly easy to generate from the current data - I guess it
depends on what you are doing.
> - gnome-apt is kind of a mess on handling multiple available versions.
> I was noticing this with apt-get too - not sure how to downgrade
> a package, or install a variant version.
Yes, a function to se the available version is neede, along with something
else but that I'm not sure of.
> - I kind of feel that "Package Status" should be a library thing.
> I randomly invented some status categories, but I think it would
> make sense for apt-get and any future frontends to use the same ones.
> This code (along with lots of other dubious code, often I don't
> know what the hell I'm doing when I move out of gnome-land :-) can be
> found in pkgutil.cc.
What is Package Status?
Jason
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