Re: [gentoo-dev] An Offering: the EMerge Interface

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:59:25AM -0400, Will Rogers wrote:
> Karl,
>
> I rewrote the entire thing in Python (partly to see if I could).  I
> haven't tested it as much as the original because it's 2am and I have to
> be at work in seven hours, but I was able to merge and unmerge joe, as
> well as query a bunch of stuff, without any trouble on my system.  It is
> at present a lot slower than the Perl version because I used
> os.path.walk instead of opening a pipe from find, but I'll probably
> change that given the horrid performance it causes.

I've been working on something like this before: I have package name
lookups using regexes working, which can be sorted on version/revision, 
etc.

I'll check it into CVS when I find a permanent place to stay and get my
machiine working (or tire of waiting for a room and just go buy a portable
and a futon ;).

>
> I send this directly to you because I get the faint impression that
> gentoo-dev is not the correct place to send this sort of thing and I
> didn't want to nag anyone without some guidance ;)

We can continue this on the tools mailing list. It fits there.

>
> The new version is posted at http://www.wam.umd.edu/~wjr, but as you can
> see I consider it a beta (more because of performance than stability--it
> takes several seconds to execute a dependency check with around 8
> dependencies).

I'll have a peek at it tomorrw. I don't have a Gentoo box handy today.


Regards,

Karl T