Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2007 09:15:34 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: duration of the ports freeze Message-ID: <20071201221533.GU50167@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <4751CDB6.7040505@gmail.com> References: <20071201204245.GA57218@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <4751CDB6.7040505@gmail.com>
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--i7KxW38SoMauyveo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 04:10:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >This is due to thinking of the port system as one would of as say >make(1) namely a multistage transaction vs. one big atomic >transaction. Doing first makes each port responible for most it's >knowledge and thus open to inconsistencies and the other makes so the >port is nothing but a node in a graph with the edges holding most of >the knowledge instead of the nodes. You continue to complain that the current dependency system is broken but you have yet to provide an alternative. >If there was a universal way of handling stuff as recommended in >Miller97 and most decent algorithm books. You also regularly references to Aegis - again with no explanation as to what problem Aegis would solve and how it would solve it. I recall hearing Peter Miller present his paper at AUUG'97 and I know I was interested enough at the time to install and experiment with Aegis but (for reasons I don't recall any longer), I have since reverted to make. --=20 Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour. --i7KxW38SoMauyveo Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHUd0F/opHv/APuIcRAoAlAKCmT98WP7cdB3d5iffQJNo3X1zj1QCePwkh 2aUVXgomTUjMQ9TRCabT6BI= =2MgS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --i7KxW38SoMauyveo--
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