Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:18:21 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pib comments. Message-ID: <199701060548.QAA29246@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <280.852383838@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 4, 97 05:17:18 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > ... In a modern GUI kinda environment, you'd have a button > for "show installation trees" and all the ports would suddenly jump > into columns, grouped by destination hierarchy, or if you clicked on > "Highlight -> LEGAL", all the tainted ones would show up in red. > > I defy you to provide that level of functionality without keeping a > cache. :-) I suggest that the Makefiles are a cache already (just a bad one 8), so the matter is one of degree, not principle. 8) I can just hear them screaming now; but it's OK, I put off redoing the whole ports mechanism in Tcl in favour of working on the FCF 8) > Jordan -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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