[pacman-dev] Maelstrom(Pacman in C#) project brief

[VMiklos]

Hello,

Na Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 05:40:40PM +0300, Bozhidar Batsov <lordbad at e-card.bg> pisal(a):
> Well I have no intention to fork Arch. I strive to make a product 100% 
> compatible with the existing, but I want to offer through it a few 
> things that are missing in pacman and a couple of newer technologies. I 
> don't think that mono is a bad thing just because .NET is a Microsoft 
> product. After all Miguel de Icaza has stated many times that if he had 
> mono 8 years ago there wouldn't be one line of C code in GNOME. I 
> personally consider it to be a much better framework than java. Style 
> and consistency are almost perfect here. Pascal notation for methods, 
> camel for vars, great generics, great datatypes, security...

let's say you would write this in python or perl, we would have the same
problem: pacman is a lowlevel tool, it should be fast and have as less
deps as possible. mono can be a great tool but are you sure it's nice to
have the whole mono framework in an install cd?

- VMiklos
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