Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 12:29:52 +0100 From: Jona Joachim <walkingshadow@grummel.net> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Why not install libinstall.a? Message-ID: <20070223122952.3b6d8fdb@localhost>
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Hi! I plan to write a GUI for the FBSD ports collection. I wrote a sketch of it in Python to see what I should look like and how it should work. At some point I needed a way to see whether a port is outdated or not and so I took a look at how other tools implement the version comparison function. version_cmp in src/usr.sbin/pkg_install/lib/version.c is exactly what I need. Then I saw that a library is created (libinstall.a) during buildworld with this and a whole bunch of other interesting functions that may interest developers of ports management tools. My question: why don't you install this library into /usr/lib/ ? Regards, Jona -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Copy me to your .signature file and help me propagate, thanks!
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