[Yum-devel] beyond 3.0.X

James Bowes jbowes at redhat.com
Fri Dec 1 16:21:39 UTC 2006


Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 11:11 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
>> Jeremy Katz wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 10:10 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
>>>> Right now I'm interested in:
>>>>  - speeding things up where possible
>>>>  - making sure we can simplify writing other tools using yum
>>>>  - robustifying portions of the code for failures
>>>>  - enhancing our error reporting
>>>>
>>>> What do y'all think matters?
>>> If 3.2 isn't huge API changes[1], I'd be very happy :-)
>> I think keeping the API the same and simplifying writing other tools 
>> using yum are conflicting goals.
> 
> You can keep old API users happy while still adding new API that's
> easier for other tools to use.  New tools don't have to work on old yum;
> old tools should work with new yum.

Yeah. They're conflicting, but not mutually exclusive.

-James

> 
> Jeremy
> 
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