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

[Gabriel C]

Bozhidar Batsov wrote:
> VMiklos wrote:
>> 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
>>   

>>   
> Not exactly so. For one thing there are many popular programs build with 
> mono today - beagle, f-spot, tomboy, muine and others so you are likely 
> having the framework installed anyway. There are talks that soon mono 
> will be accepted as an official dependency in GNOME.

All the programs you are talking about are almost broken but is not the point here.

You think to much about 'installations with an DESKTOP/X' that is.

*Why* do you think I would install _mono_ ( about 70MB bloat ) on my _servers_ ?

Just to run an PM ? 


Gabriel