Re: crazy ideas for yum/pup/that_damned_applet

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

David Zeuthen (david fubar dk) said: 
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 23:49 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> >dbus actually comes with python bindings... you could write the entire
> >manager in python if you so desire.
> 
> Actually I'd rather this was written in C (using glib and the D-BUS glib
> bindings) to be as lean as possible memory-wise.

Well, there's really three directions:

1) write the entire manager in python, using the yum code and the python
   D-BUS bindings
2) write the manager in C, using C D-BUS bindings, and shell out to yum
   python stuff for updates, querying, etc
3) write the manager in C, using C D-BUS bindings, and using rpmlib

#2 is architecturally ugly. #3 is just... no.

Bill