Cupt, the re-implementation of APT suite, continues growing.

Since the previous post a lot of bugs were fixed, several versions were uploaded to Debian. As always, many bugs were hunted out, and now, last 0.2.3 version hasn't any open bugs in BTS.

I claim this is a good time for anyone who experienced bugs with APT to at least try typing one's favorite package manager command (update, full-upgrade, install, remove etc.) with cupt. Not being Swiss knife, Cupt already works for many known cases. If it doesn't, file a bug.

I claim this is a good time for anyone who feels that Perl is bad programming language to show practical objective statistics (speed, memory footprint etc.).

I claim this is a good time for anyone who has some words to say about Cupt (good or bad) to say them. Using private e-mail or via #cupt channel on OFTC IRC network.

Several people asked me before, do I want to replace APT by Cupt in some future. Well, if APT will stay unmaintained as it is now, then the answer is probably 'yes'.


In the meantime, a half-pilot implementation of source packages is ready. It's possible the next uploaded version of Cupt will strike out the 'experimental' word from the tool's description.