2008/2/11, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > On Feb 11, 2008 9:46 AM, Mark <markg85@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 2008/2/10, Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > > > > Did you explain why you need a java api? Did i miss that? > > > > I thought i told that in my first post but apparently i didn't. > > I need java because it's the only decent programming language that i > > can do at the moment. I can do php but that isn't good for > > applications. Also i could learn Python but i rather skip it all > > together and get strait to c and c++ but that won't happen anytime > > soon. > > > > Here's the thing... as a project we've got a significant amount of > code and momentum invested in python. If you want to work on this in > java only because you know java best, I am going to strongly suggest > you reconsider this. If you need to use java because you have some > local technical need for a java class to interface with existing java > code that you have, that would be an entirely different thing. But if > the main goal here is to give back your work to this project and have > an impact, its not necessarily the best use of your time to code a > java frontend to packgekit. Yes it can be done, but it might not be > the best thing to do to meet your primary goal. > > If your goal is to make a long term impact on what Fedora is actually > doing, you'll have a much easier time of it if you bite the bullet and > start learning some python now. It's extremely unlikely that we'll be > moving our toolbase to java or including a java frontend in our > default release offerings. if anything, if you create something clever > and compelling in java, someone else will redo it in python so that > its more easily consumable and reusable by the project directly. > > -jef Oke that makes sense. and what about a c/c++ frontend? that's what i actually want to do with java just as a step between it. Just asking and seeing if that might be a good possibility. I won't make that anytime soon because i have no c/c++ knowledge at the moment or anytime soon (as in 1+ years or so). -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
