[pacman-dev] Libalpm direction and usage by others

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Loui <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:37:16 +0100
>  Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
>
>  > fwiw, there were working python bindings (and libpacman still has ones),
>  > but then problem with it was it violated KISS, so it was removed.
>
>  Was that to make libalpm development easier? Do you have any more
>  information? Thanks.

They were removed because we didn't really do anything on top of what
swig output. So we assumed the following:

* Anyone could use swig to generate the same bindings
* A more focused project for python bindings would do a better job at it