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Hi guys, |
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today while idling in #gentoo-guis bheekling came up with |
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www.packagekit.org, which wants to be one frontend for many package |
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managers. We had some discussion about it - but this is not want I want |
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to propose. |
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While thinking about it, I wondered, why we have so many different |
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portage frontends - and each having its own portage backend. As there |
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are different approaches in defining a GUI, there is only one approach |
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of getting your information from portage. So instead of having one GUI, |
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I want to have one backend, which can be used by all different GUIs. |
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This makes the development of new GUIs simple - and might even be useful |
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for small scripts. |
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Also this backend should it make possible to access different package |
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managers (portage, paludis, pkgcore, equo) through one standardized API. |
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Thus in the end all GUIs will support all different Gentoo Package Manglers. |
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HOW? |
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Basically I want to have one service in the middle, that is accessed via |
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DBus. This service itself calls pkg-manager backends which in turn get |
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information out of the pkg manager. |
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For the second part there are two different approaches: |
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1) Have all backends in the service itself. |
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2) Have the backends extra - and they are called by DBus itself. |
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Pros & Cons: |
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1) |
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- - C: All backends should be written in the same language, what could be |
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difficult, as different pkg-managers use different languages. |
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- - P: Faster? |
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2) |
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- - P: Different languages can be chosen - and it is easy to add a new |
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backend. |
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- - P: The backend might be provided by the package manager itself, which |
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makes it easier to maintain. |
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- - C: More overhead. |
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Open Issues |
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- - How could we send complex objects with dbus? |
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So guys ... now the question: Could you imagine to put efforts together |
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and plan such a thing? =) |
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Regards, |
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- -- Necoro =) |
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