SoC2009: libpkg, pkg tools rewrite

[David Forsythe]

Hi,
I'm David Forsythe, 3rd year student at the University of Maryland, College
Park.  For SoC2008 I worked on added parallel build support and database
locks to ports.  I've been using FreeBSD for a while, and have taken
particular interest in ports and packages.
This summer I'll be working on creating a package library and using that
library to rewrite the pkg tools.  A package library has been discussed and
even started before, but FreeBSD still does not have one.  This summer I'd
like to get enough of the library done to atleast have a new set of pkg
tools completed with the current features, but ideally I'd like to get far
enough to splice in some of the ideas I have for new features.
Here's the wiki page: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SoC2009DavidForsythe
Dave
-- 
David Forsythe