YaST/Research/Make YaST Independent of YCP

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YaST has its own language which is not very popular. We have support for perl components, and since recently, support for Ruby and Python is here.

• Now that libyui is independent of YaST, we need to leverage it without YCP, defining nice APIs in popular languages
• There is a prototype to convert ycp code to xml and then to ruby, which can be used to move _some_ functionality
• There is a prototype of a MySQL server module written in Python.

Required knowledge: Ruby or Python, C++, YaST2, languages, parsers, compilers

Skill level: hard

Participants

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• Jozef Uhliarik

Willing mentors

dmacvicar, kkaempf at suse.de, User:Mvidner