GSoC Proposal: Rewrite key parts of MacPorts in Python

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Mar 31, 2020, at 16:14, Alex Ionkov wrote:

> I submitted a proposal this year for rewriting parts of MacPorts in Python. The eventual goal is to rewrite all of MacPorts in Python to increase modularity and make integration of other APIs with MacPorts easier. 

Is this an idea you just came up with or has there been some discussion of this before? I didn't see this idea on our GSoC page [1] and it comes as a surprise to me.

[1] https://trac.macports.org/wiki/SummerOfCode#Projects