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Good day all,
I am writing an Arch Linux review article, and I need a specific detail about the historical development of pacman. My understanding is that pacman was originally written in a scripting language, and later refactored and written in C, to give it a significant speed boost. Can anybody verify what that original scripting lanugage was?
Also, if any Arch developers, Trusted Users, or long time users would like to critique my article before publication, please let me know in this thread, and I'll send you a copy for review once the article is complete.
Many thanks,
Luke Seubert
"To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic."
-- Albert Schweitzer
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I thought it started out in C but I was not here in the early days so could be wrong.
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You might be right Alan, as I don't know for sure that pacman started off in a scripting language. But I seem to recall such was the case - where I might have read this I do not remember - and I wanted to factcheck this with the Arch community.
"To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic."
-- Albert Schweitzer
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It's possible that, at one point, Judd uses some scripts to do package management when he was using Crux (I don't know where I got this impression) but I think that they were never released (or at least they weren't called pacman).
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pacman was first written in C:
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/
ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/other/pacman/pacman-1.0.tar.gz
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OK, thanks for the information Snowman - I appreciate your setting the record straight. Now I got the facts :-)
"To the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hoping are optimistic."
-- Albert Schweitzer
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I've heard that too from TUs/developers, pacman was established in C, so +1
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