August 11, 2010

APT2 - this time in C

As I wrote a few hours ago on deity@l.d.o (see http://lists.debian.org/deity/2010/08/msg00057.html), APT2 is back again. The first time, I tried Vala; but this time I wrote it in C (with the help of GLib, but no GObject) and the cache uses GVariant instead of an SQLite database. It’s really basic at the moment (no solver, package installation/removal), but it will improve. Read operation should be faster than with APT, although writes are slower (this will be fixed by reusing unchanged parts of the cache).

See the announcement for further information.

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