YAPIB (was: Drawing graphics on terminal)
The Anarcat
anarcat at anarcat.ath.cx
Thu Jun 19 11:24:40 PDT 2003
Bravo!
Now this is the talk I like to hear. :)
Sorry to have been so negative in my last emails, I see there is good
work going on. I have forgotten about you efforts, Tim.
Don't give up!
A.
On jeu jun 19, 2003 at 09:42:20 -0700, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> Paul Robinson wrote:
> > As to what I'm writing, well, I'm going to do the design in about four weeks
> > time, and anybody who is interested can take a look. An announcement will
> > probably go up on -hackers and -libh...
> > ....
> > I want something that works. To be honest, just something that abstracts
> > /usr/ports and makes use of the pkg-descr files would be more useful than
> > the current blank void navigated with cd and more...
>
>
> Paul,
>
> When you get ready to do some work, let me know. I've
> been rewriting the guts of pkg_add for the last month
> or two. I'm pretty pleased with the results so far,
> but there's still a lot of code to write.
>
> So far:
> * libtarfile works. This is a library that provides
> simple iteration over tarfiles. It handles format
> detection (e.g., both old/Posix/GNU formats and
> gzip/bzip2/etc compression), can 'extract' entries
> to disk or to an in-memory buffer, etc. The read support
> is pretty solid; the write support is just a sketch.
> * Direct package extraction works. I can open a package
> file from stdin, disk, ftp, etc, and just install it
> without having to create a temp directory or any of
> that nonsense. The idea: extract the packing list
> into memory, parse it, use it to direct the extraction
> of the rest of the package. This is _MUCH_ faster
> than the older pkg_add code.
> * I've also completely overhauled the packing-list
> parsing code and a lot of the other basic operations.
>
> Next steps:
> * Requirements handling: I have some recursive requirements
> handling, but I'm not entirely happy with it. I'm exploring
> other approaches.
> * Locating packages. This will probably involve building
> a DB file in /var/db/pkg to record information about
> what packages are available from which ftp sites, etc.
> * Handling conflicts gracefully. This may well involve
> building a DB file that maps filenames->package names
> so that an attempt to overwrite a file can be immediately
> tracked back to the conflicting package.
> * Building a useful library. I'm being careful to keep code
> as generic as possible, so it should be pretty simple
> to put a lot of the useful pieces (packing-list management,
> locating packages, etc) into a library.
>
> Like I said, let me know when you're ready to work on this.
> My stuff is still pretty rough in some spots, but a lot of
> it should prove useful to anyone working on install issues.
>
> Tim Kientzle
>
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