[gentoo-portage-dev] [API] First steps for creating an API for portage

[René 'Necoro' Neumann]

Ok guys :)

I think it has been consensus, that we need to define the operations
everyone wants to be in the API.

The following is currently only my point of view, but I'll represent it
here also:

Then a python-API is created which should allow for this set of
operations. From this one could go and implement the library to make the
API do something useful :)

In parallel (or thereafter), we build the C-bindings. The API for these
bindings probably look different -- but I guess they should be
implemented in terms of the library created above.

By example:

- Operation: get the list of categories
- Python-API: portage.api.categories() : Category list
- Implementation: def categories(): return ....
- C-API: category * categories()
- C-Implementation: some wrapper around portage.api.categories


So ... first step: Which operations do we need?

- René