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Re: dpkg/dselect development

David Frey:
> How difficult would it be to recode dselect in C? If it were written in
> C and if there was a separation between the UI and the database, it would
> be simpler to write a new UI.

From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
> C++ is not my favourite language; I used it for dselect because of
> some technical problems that would have been cumbersome to solve in C.
> The package database stuff in dpkg's lib subdirectory is all in C, and
> should probably stay that way.

C++ is _my_ favorite language. I find it's especially good for library
code because it enforces an interface better than C, but if you presently
have the package database in C, it should probably remain that way.
I don't think there's much point in back-porting C++ code in dselect back
to C if that code uses object-oriented features - keep it in C++ and
document its interface, or add a C calling layer to it and link with g++.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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