[Mageia-dev] [Mageia-discuss] About Mandriva tools future : Host Mandriva tools on github

Tue Oct 5 00:09:54 CEST 2010

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 17:53 -0400, Robert Xu wrote:
+[...]
+
+> would it be possible to move drakxtools slowly away from perl gtk?
+> Or at least make perl gtk better (and provide a perlQt implementation?)
+
+In principle there could be a GDK port to use Qt, so the same *drak code
+would work with both toolkits.
+
+> Because as far as I'm concerned, if any of these GUIs freeze up, it's
+> automatically sucky.
+> Which most of them will do (ex rpmdrake)
+> (Even though most aren't, but this affects usability very much)
+
+I have not seen rpmdrake freeze up, not like KDE apps :-) but that's
+probably because I use a gnome desktop by preference.
+
+But rpmdrake ported to Qt would probably "freeze up" in the same places.
+It needs more asynchronous operations.  At one point I thought about
+using dbxml (a small, fast interface to XML documents, with a btree
+index and dynamic hashing), which would probably make rpmdrake and urpmi
+a lot faster, but the dbxml packages didn't even build easily on
+Mandriva, and the rpm didn't install the perl API.
+
+Liam
+
+-- 
+Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
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