[Rpm-maint] Promoting popt

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Sun Dec 17 20:08:00 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 14:58 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> Peter Bowen wrote:
> > I think it is time we gave popt a promotion.  He has worked tirelessly
> > under the tutelage of rpm for a number of years, never getting full
> > recognition.  I think that James has already removed the popt directory
> > in his tree, but if we commit that as-is, we will loose popt.  Since the
> > hg tree just go reorganized to allow for maximum rpm along side rpm, I
> > would suggest adding popt alongside.
> > 
> > Does this make sense?
> >
> 
> I like it. Maybe the same could be done with language bindings?
> 

Would it make sense to break out the subcomponents that should come up
to the top from rpm?

- librpmbuild/rpmbuild
- rpm lib/cli
- $language-rpm
- popt

what else?

-sv






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