From owner-freebsd-binup Sun Oct 28 5:22:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-binup@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (genius.tao.org.uk [212.135.162.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C6137B405; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 05:22:09 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id 9DEE915E; Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:21:47 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 13:21:47 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Paul Richards Cc: Alexander Langer , The Anarcat , "Simon L. Nielsen" , Eric Melville , binup@FreeBSD.org, libh@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: current project steps Message-ID: <20011028132147.B3223@tao.org.uk> References: <20011020202153.A76835@FreeBSD.org> <20011026135930.03D1637B406@hub.freebsd.org> <20011026165952.D11804@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011026221254.A36515@tao.org.uk> <20011026172027.F11804@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011026223033.A44573@tao.org.uk> <20011027131726.A68253@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011027210157.D1534@tao.org.uk> <20011028100459.A40262@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <361480000.1004271794@lobster.originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <361480000.1004271794@lobster.originative.co.uk>; from paul@freebsd-services.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:23:14PM -0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-binup@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:23:14PM -0000, Paul Richards wrote: >=20 > To do that in libh you'd basically have to implement the sort of API we've > been talking about here, but the API should be designed so that it is also > pluggable into other applications. It makes more sense to develop it as a > separate project, with libh as a consumer, than to develop it as part of > libh, so that there is no risk of it having any dependencies on libh or > it's design being overly influenced by the specific requirements of libh. >=20 Not necessarily. It may make sense to make 'package library' =3D=3D our pkgAPI. I've got a copy of the libh repository and will take a look at that part of it to see how it's designed. Joe p.s. libh folken - please don't get the impression that we're poo-poo'ing what you'd done. Not at all. We're all on the same ultimate side here. --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvcBmsACgkQXVIcjOaxUBZK7ACgncIr5IiBuEK2JhCtX320/opx w0cAn2qoiNhkqsVoW/diR/5+Fjucr94O =Uoz9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --St7VIuEGZ6dlpu13-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-binup" in the body of the message