From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 12 12:16:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.halplant.com (66-61-52-186.wo4.cox.rr.com [66.61.52.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6987137B402 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 12:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail.halplant.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 545DE11; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:16:22 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 15:16:22 -0500 From: Andrew J Caines To: Pat Wendorf Cc: Nuno Teixeira , stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade Utility Message-ID: <20020112151622.H40697@hal9000.halplant.com> Reply-To: Andrew J Caines Mail-Followup-To: Pat Wendorf , Nuno Teixeira , stable@FreeBSD.org References: <3C38AFF2.5020708@unios.dhs.org> <20020106213531.GE19117@gw.tex.bogus> <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C4083F4.9000900@unios.dhs.org>; from beholder@unios.dhs.org on Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:44:04PM -0500 Organization: H.A.L. Plant X-PGP-Fingerprint: C59A 2F74 1139 9432 B457 0B61 DDF2 AA61 67C3 18A1 X-Powered-by: FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pat, > Anyone thought of re-coding it in perl? I know little about either > language, so I applogize if this sounds stupid. While the dependencies would be a big issue affecting consideration of making a tool part of the base system, in this case we are talking about a tool for the ports system only. It would make little sense to put it in the base system even if it had no dependencies. -Andrew- -- _______________________________________________________________________ | -Andrew J. Caines- Unix Systems Engineer A.J.Caines@halplant.com | | "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary | | safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message