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Date:      Thu, 9 May 2002 11:01:14 +0200
From:      Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>, GB Clark <gclarkii@vsservices.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The future of perl on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20020509110114.A64078@shale.csir.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org>; from bmah@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0700
References:  <xzpd6w7ilv6.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20020508075112.66AB638FD@overcee.wemm.org> <20020508035501.72d32dfc.gclarkii@vsservices.com> <20020508155202.GE85290@electricjellyfish.net> <200205081608.g48G8W5p029919@intruder.bmah.org>

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Hi,

On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 09:08:32AM -0700, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> 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.  :-)

I'll see if I can do something this weekend.  It'll be in C, and make
the version comparison part of the library.

I'm not going to look at pkg_upgrade, because people are using
portupgrade instead.

Regards,
  -Jeremy

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