From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 2 5:15:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6352437B408; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 05:15:39 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id IAA77330; Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:15:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 08:15:36 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Nils Holland Cc: Tom Hukins , freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade manpage Message-ID: <20011102081536.A77305@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011102091807.A15224@eborcom.com> <20011102103923.Y1345-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20011102103923.Y1345-100000@jodie.ncptiddische.net>; from nils@tisys.org on Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:42:54AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 02, 2001 at 10:42:54AM +0100, Nils Holland wrote: > Thanks. I just asked because I wasn't really sure, as knu is an active > member of the FreeBSD Project, I thought that maybe his manpages could be > maintained by the FDP as well - in contrast to the manpages of "truly > external" ports like pine, X11, etc, which I was aware of not being > maintained by the FDP, but by the creators of the software. Well, portupgrade is written in Ruby, so it can't be part of the base system until Ruby is also. If you want to see truly spectacular flamage, go to -hackers and suggest they import Ruby into the tree. But warn me first, so I can unsubscribe. :-) ==ml -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message