Re: APT2, APT2, where are you?
On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 09:39:36AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 06:18:05PM +0100, Julian Andres Klode wrote:
> > Resolving dependencies, etc.
> > ----------------------------
> <snip>
> > External dependency solvers will be supported. I had an e-mail
> > conversation with zack on this topic, and he asked me whether this
> > would be possible. I'm just waiting for his final proposal on this
> > topic. This should probably be coordinated with cupt as well, so we can
> > share external solvers. The exchange format could be CUDF[0].
>
> I confirm that I'm active on this, we've mostly finished the spec for
> CUDF. Once that is done (no more than a couple of weeks), I'll get back
> to you with a format specification based on CUDF syntax (which is plain
> text / RFC 822, don't worry about XML or similar stuff), but better
> suited for Debian and with a connector to use it with any CUDF-based
> solvers.
>
> If the interest on this topic is more general, we can also move the
> discussion about this kind of stuff on this list.
Please do, I'm certainly interessted in this. Having support for
external resolvers is something I would like to see in libapt as
well.
Cheers,
Michael
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