Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] portage-ng design competition -- not yet

[George Shapovalov]

Hi everybody.

On Friday 05 December 2003 08:54, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Everyone, please note above that I said "have a design competition *once
> we have the requirements finalized*." This hasn't happened yet. Please
Yes, and I apologise about that. 
However as there seem to be a bit of confusion I want to emphasize again that 
this is really not a design contest entry - I would be too ashaimed to 
propose these few ideas I listed in the design *of the illustratory 
prototype* as a portage-ng design :). 

The purpose of this entry was to illustrate the capabilities of Ada language. 
The intention is to bring up some information with the code that illustrates 
what can be expected when you use it for people to look at and form the 
opinion. I am not trying to push towards Ada-only, as it was taken on one or 
two occasions :). However knowing the state of affairs with the languages and 
having programmed in a few of these I felt it would be helpfull to have an 
illustration up on the better practices I encountered.

Probably because of too much time spent on writing my paper (the unrelated 
biophys one) I chose a bit too catchy title, for which I apologise again.

Since a few good points were brought up, that might be relevant to 
requirements as well, I feel obliged to answer some of the posters (in 
particular pvdabeel's) and dissolve some misconceptions (spider's are a good 
example :)). 
However starting a language flame war is definitely not anything I would like 
to do. As such, I would prefer to keep the design discussions to 
gentoo-portage-dev list. I will also answer any ada-related questions you may 
have off list, except may be for one or two postings on -dev, to which I'll 
reply to the list.

George



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