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- And some `Package` functions slipped in.
- Done on a plane to Winnipeg.
- Now I can finish the rest of the `Package` functions. - Jared's wedding was good last night.
- This fixes some version parsing bugs, as well as letting the rest of our tests pass!
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- This is a pattern I'm going to follow for the other modules. It makes it clear which functions should be used in real Haskell code, and which shouldn't.
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alpm_listdbfunctionspkgfunctionstransactionfunctionsalpm.h)Motivation
Aura 2 has been a long time coming. The starting point for this has always been writing the ALPM bindings, which I have had a few false starts on. I've been at my new job for a year, and my schedule has settled to the point where I can finally begin this in earnest. Thanks to everyone for their patience.
The path forward is clear, and the main benefits to direct ALPM bindings are:
pacmanmanually through shell callsFAQ
This may not have a reason to continue, despite the work that has been put into it. I feel like starting from scratch with both
alpmandfreer-effectsin mind from the get-go will produce a much cleaner Aura.I am. I surveyed the FFI landscape, where it seemed like
c2hscis the best option around. While a good option, I think it's overkill. We can produce cleaner low-level bindings ourselves that don't even need foreign imports to every function available (particularly inalpm_list). That, and that the dev process isn't as nice when dealing with.hscfiles.Nix is probably the future of package management. That said, Arch is Arch, and pacman (alpm) is entrenched. Arch is healthy and will be long-lived, and will always need a good bridge to the AUR.
pacmancan be improved upon (concurrent builds!), and that is where Aura will shine.