On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Dag Wieers wrote:
On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Lamar Owen wrote:
Or we could all still be on apt-rpm and still be having multilib and related issues. And while synaptic is still far and away the best package management GUI out there bar none, the apt-rpm backend has (or at least had) significant issues at that time.
Hey ! There was nothing wrong with apt-rpm, I've been using it until November last year on CentOS-5 before I switched to RHEL6. The multi-lib problems were exagerated and fixed, the biggest problem was the lack of development after the main developer moved to Conectiva, and the second maintainer to Red Hat.
There's *lots* that's wrong with apt-rpm, don't start me.
Meanwhile -- now that there's an interested/active maintainer at Caixa Magica -- there's some hope of improving apt-rpm.
But I do prefer python over C++ anytime, though speedwise it was unbeatable.
FICL! OCAML! Java! Perl! Pyhon (but which, sigh)! ...
choice of implementation language increasingly fragments deployable solutions.
73 de Jeff