make pkg_install suite reusable, please

Alexander Churanov alexanderchuranov at gmail.com
Fri Apr 9 14:36:21 UTC 2010


2010/4/9 Leinier Cruz Salfran <salfrancl.listas at gmail.com>

> i want to ask you one thing: can you make the 'pkg_install' suite
> reusable .. means install 'libinstall.a' as a shared object in order
> to make it reusable by others devs
>

Hi Leinier,

I'd like to add my 50 cents. From my point of view, the true UNIX way is
re-using whole programs. This provides unbelievable isolation and
correctness. If you don't want to fork myriads of processes each second,
then, it's, probably, better to ask for pipe mode of pkg_* tools. For
example, aspell works that way. You start a process, write commands and
queries and read results.

Alexander Churanov


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