Jim Cornette wrote:
I wonder what was the reason why yum wasn't written in C to begin with.
Anyway, looking forward to the FC6 yum.
up2date was written in python and the thought was by the developer that
python would be kept in working order because of the other redhat (at
the time of decision to use python) programs that use python.
Ahem. Thats not true. Yum wasnt written by Red Hat to begin with. Python
was chosen by the developer because its easier for many developers to
understand and hack. The presence of many plugins for Yum can be
considered as a result of this.
Apt wasn't chosen at that time because it was basically unmaintained and
not multi lib capable. Now those reasons are not a roadblock and it is
available in Fedora Extras.
I'm looking forward to FC6 and the compilation in C, if that is the case
for yum. Hopefully the speed is better.
Just the metadata parser. Details at
http://rahulsundaram.livejournal.com/7734.html
Rahul
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