[Apt-Rpm] Aptness -- a simplified interface for libapt-pkg

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Monday 17 September 2007 05:55:19 pm João Abecasis wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'd like to take a moment of your time to announce Aptness
> (http://aptness.sf.net/), a new library which aims to provide a
> simplified library interface on top of libapt-pkg. The stated goal is
> to make it easier to develop user-level applications on top of Apt.
> This includes, for instance, update notification applets and custom
> installers.
>
> The project started out internally at Caixa Mágica
> (http://www.caixamagica.pt) and quickly progressed to become a project
> independently hosted at Sourceforge. It is being developed and used
> for it's higher-level abstraction and to lower barrier to entry for
> the development of new Apt-based applications.
>
> Aptness is being developed in C++, (first-class) bindings will be
> provided for other programming languages using SWIG. Currently, the
> library is mostly functional with regard to package actions like
> upgrade, install and remove. Configuration settings and repositories
> hasn't been tackled yet. The actual library interface, however, is
> still experimental and not to be considered stable.
>
> I'd like to hear your thoughts on the project and it's goals. What do
> you think of it?
>
> Cheers!
>
>
> João Abecasis
> _______________________________________________
> Apt-Rpm mailing list
> Apt-Rpm at lists.laiskiainen.org
> http://lists.laiskiainen.org/listinfo.cgi/apt-rpm-laiskiainen.org

Is this built to work with Apt-RPM's variant of libapt-pkg or Debian's? There 
are large incompatible differences between the two.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
Sent from: peorth.tolharadys.net
 18:49:18 up 8 days, 20:14,  1 user,  load average: 0.10, 0.04, 0.01
=========================================================================
Developer and Project Lead for the AltimatOS open source project
Volunteer Developer for the KDE open source project
 See www.tolharadys.net and www.kde.org for more information
=========================================================================

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.