PISI package manager of Pardus linux distribution. The original development branch by the original author.

PISI is a new package manager for the PARDUS distribution. In Turkish PISI means "kitty", and like a kitty, it is featureful and small.

Some of its distinctive features:

• Implemented in python
• Efficient and small
• Package sources are written in XML and python
• Fast database access implemented with berkeley DB
• Integrates low-level and high-level package operations (dependency resolution)
• Framework approach to build applications and tools upon
• Comprehensive CLI and a user-friendly qt GUI (distributed separately)
• Extremely simple package construction

Eray Ozkural, PhD