Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 20:47:56 -0800 From: bmah@freebsd.org (Bruce A. Mah) To: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> Cc: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, knu@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_version comparison routine Message-ID: <200104010447.f314lvB82505@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <20010329014745.E34676@heechee.tobez.org> References: <200103280237.f2S2bUP02277@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010328231956.B34676@heechee.tobez.org> <200103282335.f2SNZ2526600@bmah-freebsd-0.cisco.com> <20010329014745.E34676@heechee.tobez.org>
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--==_Exmh_2092827212P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 03:35:02PM -0800, Bruce A. Mah wrote: [snip] > > What's the licensing on this thing? (pkg_version is part of the base > > system now, for better or worse, so we'd need to import this code into > > src/.) > > The usual `same as perl' thingy. I.e., either GPL or Artistic, user's > choice. If necessary, I am sure it is possible to negotiate with the > author, Kenneth J. Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>. This name sounds really familiar...I'm trying to figure out if I know him or not. Must have seen his name on some other code. > > Other than that the only thing that comes to mind is NIH, which I'll > > freely admit to. :-) > > Heh. First I encountered similar code in Mandrake (!) rpm tools or > something. It was GPL and it was was *horribly* twisted: [snip] I'm not even going to pretend to understand that. For now, I think I'm going to to stick with what I've got (because I can at least understand it...even though it's not as compact as what kjahds wrote). But if someone finds a problem with it, one that cannot be fixed easily, I'll revisit the thing you pointed me to. How's that? Thanks in any case for the reference...I do appreciate it. > May the tuna salad be with you. I'm not even going to pretend to understand that either. Bruce. --==_Exmh_2092827212P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 iD8DBQE6xrL82MoxcVugUsMRAuMBAJ9whxjApFm0nF7f5hzM4WImOdTE3ACeLMs/ EPg/qsw4qqar/pOipSPW6lU= =kbsM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_2092827212P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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