[Aptitude-devel] Bug#695436: aptitude: user extensions

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: tags -1 - confirmed + wontfix


2012-12-08 03:27 Daniel Hartwig:
>Package: aptitude
>Severity: wishlist
>Tags: confirmed
>
>> Dear self
>>
>> Many features requested for aptitude are only useful in a small number
>> of cases, yet could be quite difficult to implement or maintain.  It
>> would be great if aptitude was extensible and the user could provide
>> scripts for these features.
>
>Dear self
>
>Thanks for your mail.  I have long planned to implement support for
>extensions.  There are other high-priority issues to be addressed first,
>but this request will not be far off.
>
>My current plan is to support Scheme extensions, because everybody likes
>Scheme.  Early investigations show that this will be a straight-forward
>task.  Others may prefer to use Python due to the existing APT bindings
>and work based on the same.
>
>This report will be used for two purposes:
>- as a blocker of requests for useful features that are not otherwise
>  being considered for inclusion in aptitude proper; and
>- discussing ideas pertaining to the proposed extension support.

I think that, if nothing else, adding another major dependency of
aptitude for an external library/interpreter is a very undesirable thing
to do at this point.

In any case, 3+ years later, this is neither confirmed nor planned, so
marking as +wontfix.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>