Bug#207400: An RPM port of APT
On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:07:15PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> was heard to say:
> > Yes. I've looked at this before trying with SWIG. It was quite limited
> > at the time I've looked, perhaps this has changed?
>
> It is still rather limited, but it provides a somewhat more natural Python
> API rather than directly translating the C++ API. If there are things
> missing that you need, I think I would rather add them to python-apt than
> use swig.
I haven't looked at the apt-rpm code, but one nice thing about Swig is
that it makes it pretty easy to generate interfaces to many languages
from one .i file. You can do things to your interface definitions to
make them language-specific, though...
In other words, Swig support doesn't have to be mutually exclusive with
apt-python.
Daniel
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