Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 15:37:57 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>, Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com> Cc: Pat Wendorf <beholder@unios.dhs.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <p05101204b8679b149bbf@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020112212431.A27621@shale.csir.co.za> References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org> <20020112151622.H40697@hal9000.halplant.com> <20020112212431.A27621@shale.csir.co.za>
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At 9:24 PM +0200 1/12/02, Jeremy Lea wrote: >As to incoroporation into the base system: if the code was in C, or >perl it would be incorporated. I think there is some desire to rewrite the current "critical perl scripts" in C, and to *not* include perl in the base system. Some of the interest for doing this is to make it easier to install newer versions of perl. So, I wouldn't rush to rewrite portupgrade in perl. Besides, I expect that converting from ruby to perl is a little more work than you might first think. In some sense they are similar languages, but it still takes some work to rewrite a major ruby package into perl. Even ignoring that issue, I don't think portupgrade (even if it were written in C) should necessarily be part of the base system. It *would* be nice if portupgrade were automatically-installed if a person asks for the ports collection at OS-installation time. However, if a person says "I do not want the ports collection on this system", then it's a bit odd for the base operating system to include something to install things from a ports-collection which won't even be there. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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