From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Jul 14 11:14:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77BCB37B401 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:14:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.netcologne.de (smtp.netcologne.de [194.8.194.112]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 817B643E42 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 11:14:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmseck-lists@netcologne.de) Received: from localhost (xdsl-213-168-117-153.netcologne.de [213.168.117.153]) by smtp.netcologne.de (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6EIEcUv028563 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:14:42 +0200 (MEST) Received: (qmail 482 invoked by uid 1001); 14 Jul 2002 18:14:08 -0000 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2002 20:14:08 +0200 From: Thomas Seck To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Package system flaws? Message-ID: <20020714181408.GB420@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020712121427.GD3678@lummux.tchpc.tcd.ie> <20020712144854.GA756@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020713054141.A26277@misty.eyesbeyond.com> <20020713011750.GA755@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <20020714042237.GD931@lizzy.catnook.com> <20020714042623.GB95460@squall.waterspout.com> <20020714095939.GA588@laurel.tmseck.homedns.org> <200207141333.g6EDXj0L031673@whizzo.transsys.com> <20020714164304.GA32774@lizzy.catnook.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020714164304.GA32774@lizzy.catnook.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: private site in Germany X-PGP-KeyID: DF46EE05 X-PGP-Fingerprint: A38F AE66 6B11 6EB9 5D1A B67D 2444 2FE1 DF46 EE05 X-Attribution: tms Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jos Backus (jos@catnook.com): > On Sun, Jul 14, 2002 at 09:33:45AM -0400, Louis A. Mamakos wrote: > > I suspect the only result of an attempt to re-write sysutils/portupgrade > > in a different language will be that the current developer of that tool > > will disappear. I suspect he chose his implementation lanaguge for a > > reason. Do you want the tool and developer, or a version in awk/sed/C? > > In case it wasn't clear, my previous remark was meant in jest. I would rather > have the tool (and the developer). > > Part of me still thinks it's a pity that we don't have a decent scripting > language (such as Ruby) as part of the base OS. Windows has Visual BASIC for > Applications - all due respect to the awk creators and maintainers, but surely > we can do better than awk/sh? I think it is good not to have everyones' favourite scripting language in the base system. And VBA is not part of Windows(tm) by the way. No one stops you from doing (cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby && make install). -- Thomas Seck To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message