Re: Future of Yum

[Rahul Sundaram <sundaram fedoraproject org>]

Robert Scheck wrote:

> HAHA! I ever knew, one day RPM will eat all those python programmers (okay,
> I already know who owns this domains for a longer time now) ;-)
>
> Panu...now as yum4 and yum5 will be written in C and not in python (IIRC
> nobody of rpm5.org would write yum next generation in a script language),
> wouldn't it be the perfect time to rip out the python support in RPM? This
> would bring us to a bare RPM like you were suggesting it. No HTTP, no FTP
> and no python support - what do we need more? Maybe somebody could remove
> the perl support, too? When yum4 and 5 goes back to the roots, why not RPM
> also?
>
> Unfortunately you all can't see how big my grin is...

If you are rewriting Yum in C on your own, it would be more courteous to 
call it by a different name instead of simply bumping the version, 
registering domains silently and generally end up confusing end users. I 
doubt many developers of Python apps like Zope would really consider it 
as a scripting language.  It isn't described as one officially.

HTTP/FTP client support is not really comparable to support for language 
bindings. Since you are already contributing to a different branch, it 
is unnecessary to harp on the maintainer's choices here.

Rahul