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Subject: Re: SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite
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>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:20:59PM -0400, David Forsythe wrote:
>>> This summer I'll be working on creating a package library and using
>>> that library to rewrite the pkg tools.

Jeremy Lea <reg@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Since I've already done most of the work on this already, please,
> please, please, don't ignore what I have done. 

Garrett Cooper wrote:
>     There's also http://libpkg.berlios.de/ that you could use as a
> starting point, and please, PLEASE, don't neglect the SoC work that
> was done last year by Anders Nore. It was committed to p4, but hasn't
> made it upstream to CVS yet...

Good architectural summaries would help here; I
know David already has a lot of background reading
planned before start-of-coding this summer.  Can
you provide pointers to design documents or email threads
discussing any of these?

I'm not familiar with Anders work; what is the
current status of it?  Why hasn't it been pushed
into SVN yet?  Is there a good summary of what
it does so far and what remains to be done?

Cheers,

Tim