On Mon, 2013-10-21 at 09:12 +0200, Jan Zelený wrote: > On 18. 10. 2013 at 09:35:36, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Oh also -- I've been assuming that the DNF python2 bindings will be > > compatible with the yum API. Is that the case? > > Sort of. The problem is that while yum has some sort of API, there is no > official and well documented one, therefore some plugins and tools built on > top > of yum use some of its internals. The plan in this area is to define an API > as > similar to the old one as possible well before F21 and then dedicate one > whole > release to adapt tools using yum to dnf.
Does it really have to be similar, though? I wrote a tool based on the Yum API at $dayjob, as well as two plugins. And I'll be honest, most of the Yum API is terrible. Or maybe it's just the fact that it's completely undocumented, and as a result I didn't use the "good" parts. But if we're going to be changing the tool and the language completely, wouldn't it make more sense to design a nicer API at the same time? -- Mathieu -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
