[pacman-dev] [ANNOUNCE] libpmpmmm 1.0-479-gb2c39e6

[Loui]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 00:41:48 +0200
Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> I would like to announce something that we have been working on during
> the last few months.
> 
> First, let me explain what libpmpmmm stands for, though I'm quite sure
> you all know what it is. Poor man's package manager library, written in
> C++.
> 
> You probably all remember to the new function names like
> alpm_pkg_getinfo() and the mess with return types. Now this is no longer
> a problem using C++, there are multiple alpmPkgGetinfo() functions and
> you can write multiple backends to determine which one will be executed.
> 
> I know you all hate C++, so we wrote Java bindings, this way you can
> implement your own backends in Java as well. Oh well, there is an
> experimental C# binding as well, but that's not yet public.
> 
> So far we implemented one backend, it uses a random algorithm as we
> think the method C++ uses (polymorphism) is boring.
> 
> At the moment the random generator returns constant 4, to help testing.
> 
> We talked to Richard Stallman when we choosed the license, he suggested
> to CDDL as GNU Autotools will use that license soon, so all projects
> using GNU Autotools and GPL will be illegal.
> 
> Download:
> 
> git clone git://git.frugalware.org/pub/other/libpmpmmm/libpmpmmm
> 
> Please keep in mind that at the moment you can't replace libalpm with
> libpmpmm due to patent issues, but we are working on that problem.
> 
> Oh, forgot to mention. Our patent is about we use a technology to change
> the API without rebuilding the library. This closes FS#7947, FS#9307.
> Oops, and FS#9005 as well.
> 
> Have a nice day!

Happy April 1st! :D