On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 16:20 -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote: > On 02/11/2008 03:51 PM, Mark wrote: > > Well.. i personally think that programs that need to be fast (package > > management needs that in my opinion) can't be written in python simply > > because it's not the fastest language if you go for performance. > > For what it's worth, PackageKit, its yum backend, and its GNOME frontend > are written in C. I think you mean the backend is written in C _and_ python, which is not quite the same thing. Roughly (AIUI) it's: vanilla yum python python app => yum API PK yum C C C C python python app => PK libs => dbus => PK BE => BE helpers => yum API -- James Antill <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fedora -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
