[packagekit] Zif 0.1.4 released!

[Richard Hughes]

On 4 February 2011 17:22, James Antill <james at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>  Given you are spending a significant amount of your time on zif, and
> are basically the only committer to it ... who else would know the
> roadmap?

Nobody. My point was that even I don't know what the roadmap is. I
only spend a couple of hours a week on zif, and so I'm treating it as
a bit of an experiment.

>  It has a different API, different cmdline-UI/bugs/etc. So there is no
> more of a relationship between yum and zif, than with yum and smart.

Sure, agreed.

>>  It was designed for the sole use of PackageKit to make some
>> stuff that took a long time in yum a lot faster.
>
>  If you have performance queries/RFE's/etc. for yum, by all means open a
> bug about them or talk to one of the developers.

Been there, done that, sorry. Now I'm looking at libsatsolver as it's
substantially quicker than an iterative depsolver. I've asked before
about simultaneous downloads from multiple mirrors and removing the
big yum lock, but was treated like an idiot both times.

>  Neither I nor Seth know what you mean by "big changes", there is a
> tentative roadmap of features to be implemented over the next year or so
> (as is usual) and one of those is an API to access yum directly from C.

A C interface to a python framework is pretty big news in my book.

> I wouldn't call that a big change though, and it's much less obvious if
> that will affect PK at all.

Then what's the point?

Richard.