From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Aug 3 01:05:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA12390 for stable-outgoing; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA12385; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 01:05:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id RAA13330; Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:35:07 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199708030805.RAA13330@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ports-current/packages-current discontinued In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Aug 2, 97 01:54:35 pm" To: chuckr@glue.umd.edu (Chuck Robey) Date: Sun, 3 Aug 1997 17:35:06 +0930 (CST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Chuck Robey stands accused of saying: > > Another thing to consider is the basic cleanliness of FreeBSD to tcl > applications that don't arrive via the ports mechanism. Our present > environment is such that even a well written tcl app hasn't the least > chance of configuring itself correctly. In our respect for tcl, we've > constructed a tcl-hostile system. So far, the only problems I've encountered are with extensions which use the usual bogus autoconfigure shared-library searching mechanism and thus can't find the Tcl shared libraries. I'm curious as to what other problems you've seen... -- ]] 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 [[