Cupt

What is it?

Cupt is a partial re-implementation of APT suite from scratch.

FAQ

Why?

The first announcement is here. Also, on debian-devel-announce.

What infrastructure does Cupt use?

It uses the same APT infrastructure, e.g. index files, deb cache archive files, configuration files. It understands some of widely used APT options.

What features has Cupt already?

What important features Cupt doesn't have?

Why Perl was chosen?

Can I use Cupt along with libapt-based package managers?

Yes, you can mix apt-get/apt-cache/aptitude/etc. with cupt without bad consequences.

How to feedback?

Development status

Current/Stable

The stable branch is 1.5.x (master in the Git repository). Implemented in Perl, consists of Perl modules and a console front-end to them. This is the branch which will go to Debian Squeeze.

Development

The 2.0.x branch (develop in the Git repository) is currently under active development, "alpha" stage. Both the library and the front-end are being rewritten in C++(0x). Last sources, binary packages for architecture i386 and more details can be found here.

Why the language was changed to C++?

I want Cupt to be also fast and not RAM-hungry. Perl intepreter limits an achievement of these goals significantly.


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