Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 09:08:32 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> Cc: GB Clark <gclarkii@vsservices.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD Message-ID: <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <20020508155202.GE85290@electricjellyfish.net> References: <xzpd6w7ilv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020508075112.66AB638FD@overcee.wemm.org> <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com> <20020508155202.GE85290@electricjellyfish.net>
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If memory serves me right, Garrett Rooney wrote: > On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 03:55:01AM -0500, GB Clark wrote: > > So you want to take out perl and replace it with ruby? The portupgrade > > package is a ruby script, not C. > > i think he meant that we should remove it, and if people want the > functionality they should be directed to install the portupgrade > package from ports. it works much better than pkg_update anyway, i > even recall seeing a post from the original author of pkg_update > saying just that a while back. I don't know if the author of pkg_update has ever said that, but the author of pkg_version (yours truly) has said something like this on multiple occasions (with respect to pkg_version's -c option). Oh yes, pkg_version will need to be rewritten too, because it uses Perl. I don't know how hard that will be...I haven't even looked at the code in over a year. I don't have any interest in doing this, but I'm sure one of you src/ gurus can whip something up. :-) Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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