[pacman-dev] Libalpm direction and usage by others

[João Estêvão]

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

Such a project would probably benefit from browsing this project's source

https://gna.org/projects/pynealpm

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