Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20120717172854.GB13290@gremlin.ru>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:28:54 +0400
From: gremlin@...mlin.ru
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Deepsolver

On 17-Jul-2012 18:35:49 +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:

 > > Do you feel Deepsolver is within consideration for use in Owl,
 > > instead of Zypper/apt-rpm/yum, which we were considering to
 > > use (only one of them indeed)? Would it be more lightweight
 > > than these in terms of its own dependencies?

 > Yes, I suppose it should meet Owl requirements, assuming that
 > c++ is acceptable. Is also uses libcurl for downloading index
 > files, but that feature is going to be optional. At this stage
 > of development Deepsolver is not yet ready for regular use,
 > though.

While it is still in development, is it possible to introduce the
ability to use some external URL retrievers (wget, lftpget, etc.)?
That would allow to build it without stupid dependencies affecting
its' usability...


-- 
Alexey V. Vissarionov aka Gremlin from Kremlin
<gremlin ПРИ gremlin ТЧК ru>
GPG key ID: 0xEF3B1FA8, keyserver: hkp://subkeys.pgp.net
GPG key fingerprint: 8832 FE9F A791 F796 8AC9 6E4E 909D AC45 EF3B 1FA8

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.