[packagekit] ALPM Backend

[Dustin Falgout]

Okay, thanks again for filling me in.

-Dustin

On Fri 29 Nov 2013 05:45:15 PM CST, Jonathan Conder wrote:
> Most of the errors will be caused by things having the wrong name. The
> commit I mentioned was done by a script which changed a lot of the
> names to the correct ones, but it also changed a few things to the
> wrong name. You can use it as a list of things which need changing,
> but I'd suggest leaving the variable names as they were before; only
> change the type names and function names.
>
> On 29 November 2013 15:42, Dustin Falgout <dustin at falgout.us> wrote:
>> Thanks for the info. Do you have any ideas on what could be causing
>> compilation to fail against the 0.8 API? I'd rather not discard any work
>> thats already been done (unless its necessary of course).
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Dustin
>>
>>
>> On Fri 29 Nov 2013 05:09:27 PM CST, Jonathan Conder wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Dustin,
>>>
>>> This has been on my todo list for a long time now. I got it to the
>>> point where all the features from the 0.7 version have been ported
>>> over, but it does not currently compile against the 0.8 API.
>>> I would suggest you revert
>>> commit 723bb6f57f34d47c2e56c3fadd5fc9e3aa26685a and start from scratch
>>> in terms of the porting.
>>> Mostly you'll just need to change names of functions/variables/types
>>> but there may be cases where you'll need to be careful about thread
>>> safety (I haven't really looked into this carefully).
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>>
>>> On 29 November 2013 14:35, Dustin Falgout <dustin at falgout.us
>>> <mailto:dustin at falgout.us>> wrote:
>>>
>>>      Hi all,
>>>
>>>      Could anyone fill me in on the status of porting the alpm backend
>>>      from 0.7.x to 0.8.x? What items from "backends/PORTING.txt" are
>>>      complete/incomplete? I'd like to get it working and appreciate any
>>>      advice on where my focus should be.
>>>
>>>      Thanks,
>>>
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