Goswin Brederlow wrote: > I think its a bad idea to say "You want to access to dpkg, programm in > XXX". All interaction should be via a call to dpkg itself. Also > modules should be programs by itself and not linked. > > dpkg would then call "dpkg-download-ftp" to download a package via > ftp, or it could call "dpkg-download-apt" to use apt and so on. > > That way all modules can be written in any language. They only must > share a common interface via commandline options, which all programs > can provide easily.
Library interfaces can be much richer and let you do a lot of things that are a royal pain with a command line interface. They also have less overhead. C libraries are quite usable from other languages. -- see shy jo
