''the ideas and theories which drive apt developmeant and notes on the development environment'' 

== Development Environment ==
For better or worse, this is what I use to work on [wiki:pkg-apt]. 

IDE: I'm using this project to learn how to use the [http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Leo Outline Editor]. Bring apt.py into a `@file` node (drag and drop should do nicely) and you should see the functions split out into a tree that's somewhat easier to understand than a big long file. It does that for me anyway.

PYTHON: 2.5, 2.6, 2.7, installed in C:\ and registered with Windows. I used to use solely the python 2.5 within o4w but stopped when Leo started requiring 2.6. I'm now working towards using solely 2.7 from the testing repository (as soon as I get the problem with x64 python registering properly licked). As yet I don't think apt itself requires anything newer than 2.5.