Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 09:43:01 -0800 (PST) From: youshi10@u.washington.edu To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_upgrade (was Re: pkg_add does not backtrack, does it?) Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0702090943010.5825@hymn01.u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <17868.40406.608011.589753@bhuda.mired.org>
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On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <20070209111314.GA84731@lpthe.jussieu.fr>, Michel TALON <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr> typed: >> Funny that i have just announced a program, that i have called pkgupgrade >> (by analogy with portupgrade, i was not aware of his other work), and whose >> aim is precisely to do the things you want - i don't pretend it succeeds >> perfectly, there may be bugs in it, but its aim is indeed to be a substitute to >> portupgrade, with some differences. > > Cool. > >> On the downside, for some people it is written in python. > > Personally, I think that's cool, but it does means it won't go into > the base system. Portupgrade would probably be in the base system if > it were written in a language in the base system. > > <mike > -- > Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html > Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information. Would perl be close enough to count, or would it have to be C/C++? -Garrett
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