From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 5 21:49:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id VAA08933 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 21:49:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id VAA08928 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 21:49:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id QAA29246; Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:18:22 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199701060548.QAA29246@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: pib comments. In-Reply-To: <280.852383838@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 4, 97 05:17:18 am" To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 16:18:21 +1030 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@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-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan K. Hubbard stands accused of saying: > ... In a modern GUI kinda environment, you'd have a button > for "show installation trees" and all the ports would suddenly jump > into columns, grouped by destination hierarchy, or if you clicked on > "Highlight -> LEGAL", all the tainted ones would show up in red. > > I defy you to provide that level of functionality without keeping a > cache. :-) I suggest that the Makefiles are a cache already (just a bad one 8), so the matter is one of degree, not principle. 8) I can just hear them screaming now; but it's OK, I put off redoing the whole ports mechanism in Tcl in favour of working on the FCF 8) > Jordan -- ]] 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 [[