On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Bryan Ischo wrote:

This sounds like a good idea. But it would involve greater changes to libalpm then I felt comfortable doing. Unfortunately, when one is just a patch contributor rather than a real developer, one feels the need to keep all changes as minimal as possible, instead of reaching into lots of parts of the code and doing cleanups and refactoring and such. But I would be happy to do some of that, once I feel more comfortable with the code base.

Just wanted to set the record straight here- if you are a patch contributor, you are a developer in my mind. I don't think the old timers or new timers are perfectly happy with the shape libalpm is in, so feel free to hack things up if it results in long term improvement. We definitely have done a lot of refactoring and cleanup to the code, but there is no shortage of places that could still use a good rework or rewrite. Obviously it is best if you can separate your work into patch chunks that are easier to digest, but sometimes that just isn't possible. GIT makes it real easy to go back and refactor your refactorings as you can easily mix and match your patches. -Dan