Re: call for code audit help

[Helge Hess]

Hi,

we also look into building a pkg management system for the GNUstep 
environment. I had a quick look at your approach and it seems that you 
are not basing your efforts on one of the existing pkg managers (eg rpm 
or apt). May I ask why ?

Currently I tend to use rpm as the basis since it can manage multiple 
databases on a single host, runs on multiple platforms, it is well 
supported, quiet fast and - already provides a C library to process the 
pkgs. So I would try to build an ObjC wrapper around that library (has 
anybody done that before or wants to do this ?).
What's also missing for rpm is the "red-carpet" functionality which I 
definitly want to have.

Greetings
  Helge

e.sammer wrote:
> All:
>
> I am looking for anyone interested in helping with a code audit of the 
> LinuxSTEP package manager (lspm). As it comes closer and closer to the 
> initial release (bundled with LinuxSTEP) and is, arguably, very 
> important to system management I want to make sure most (hopefully all) 
> of the bugs are caught.
>
> Note: LinuxSTEP itself is *not* required to test lspm. Lspm will run on 
> any system where GNUstep, popt, libxml2, etc. will run.
>
> Like I said, this is more for checking the code rather than testing the 
> functionality although both are important. Also, feature suggestions and 
> constructive critique is also good.
>
> The code is available at 
> http://www.linuxstep.org/downloads/LinuxSTEP-CodeCore-0.0.8.tar.gz
>
> (Instructs are included in the file)
>
> Thanks in advance...