On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:25:17PM +1000, Daniel James Patterson wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 02:50:38AM -0700, Chris Waters wrote: > > > > I think an interesting approach would be to use CORBA. Make dpkg into > > a networkable server for polymorphic package objects! G'wan, I dare > > ya! :-) > > I don't see why not.
How about "it's complete overkill"? > (and non-language specific) design that could be implemented easily enough > in _many_ languages. There are a few OO tools (I'm thinking Rational Rose > in particular) that can do code generation from UML work, which could mean > that we could decide on a design before decending to our baser instincts > to argue about what language it should be implemented in :) I don't see anything in the Debian packaging system which fits OO very well at all. We have just one type of package; there are no special sub-types, for example. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome.
