On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:10:15PM +0200, Xavier <shiningxc@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm beginning to think that pacman was probably already a too complex project to start with, I always have to ask about how things should be done, and I'm very rarely able to come up with a patch I'm happy with.
well, pacman's code has a high quality i think. it has a homogenous style, the indentation is clean, etc. i started c programming on linux with MPlayer and.. well if you want to see ugly code then just have a look at mplayer.c :-) also - pacman is a small project. you can read it's full source during a single afternoon. most projects has a much wider codebase and you have to spent days just with reading the source (for example i recently wanted to hack bitlbee and i had to realize that i have to learn the whole glib event handling first.. - pacman does not use any such complex external lib, another reason for choosing pacman as your #1 c project :) ) - VMiklos